It is simply impossible not to see the reality of what is happening. Writing code is no longer needed for the most part. It is now a lot more interesting to understand what to do, and how to do it (and, about this second part, LLMs are great partners, too). It does not matter if AI companies will not be able to get their money back and the stock market will crash. All that is irrelevant, in the long run. It does not matter if this or the other CEO of some unicorn is telling you something that is off putting, or absurd. Programming changed forever, anyway.
— Salvatore Sanfilippo, Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
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- Hello World - 11th January 2026
A lot of things about software engineering are changing very, very quickly. Three years ago, ChatGPT could write you a probably-buggy script. Two years ago, it could pretty effectively regurgitate stack overflow in a specific domain. A year ago, it could write a medium sized amount of code, but probably miss a lot of nuance and write tests that said an obfuscated version of
return true.Skepticism was warranted. Cautioning that there was a lot of hype and that it created ai slop was deserved. Eye-rolling about unmaintainable "vibe coding" was reasonable.
And then things started to change. AI isn't replacing software engineers right now. But it should be changing how they work and how they think about their work. That is both undeniable and non-reversible.