A historian warns software's oral tradition may not survive AI

Claim

A historian-turned-engineer warned that the oral tradition that built software may not survive AI, as the mentor-to-junior handoff of institutional memory dissolves into model weights, while Microsoft stitches Copilot, chat, Cowork and a new Autopilot agent into a single super app.

Reporting date: 2026-06-02 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to June 2, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)