The Efficiency Trap In AI
In this episode of TechUnhinged, host Rabia Javeed sits down with Charath Ranganathan, Chief Technology Officer at CoreStory, which builds tools that pull specifications out of legacy codebases. Charath argues that AI has replaced coding and has not affected the discipline of engineering, and that conflating the two is the most misleading assumption enterprises bring into an AI rollout. He explains why a 1970s mainframe resists modernization because code records what was decided, not why; why evals belong in front of production rather than behind it; and how a flood of generated code produces…
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