Casado: AI programming differs from past abstractions by abdicating deterministic logic
Martin Casado · How AI Changes the Economics of Innovation · Aug 25, 2026 · at 32:57
a16z General Partner Martin Casado discusses how software abstractions are shifting from deterministic developer logic to probabilistic AI models.
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“If I'm writing a program, I'll like, whatever, I'll use a cloud database, I'll use storage, I'll use networking, you know, whatever it is, but like correctness and logic for the program is under the programmer's control. Maybe I'll use a third party library. But again, like, I'm choosing the library. I know the inputs. I know the outputs. And I feel like we're entering this realm where you're actually abdicating logic to a third party.”
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