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PodcastThe a16z ShowSeptember 28, 2026

AI Can Write Code. Why Isn’t Software Better?

TypeSafe's Jev embeds probabilistic AI inside software as a new primitive, potentially making incumbent SaaS companies AI's biggest beneficiaries, not victims.

  • The core critique: Diogo Almeida argues coding agents like Cloud Code and Codex produce 'just-in-time software' — same code humans always wrote, just faster, not more capable.
  • Jev's new primitive: TypeSafe's Jev lets developers embed a probabilistic classifier directly into programs, taking natural-language intent and outputting a state-machine decision with confidence levels, rather than text for humans to interpret.

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