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There are (sort of) two kinds of coders: those who see it as just a well-paying, stable job, and those who do it on nights and weekends because they love it, and it’s part of their identity. Today’s LLM tools now enable an individual to essentially be an entire software _factory_, and this is going to impact those 2 kinds of coders very differently — especially in how they respond to *both* of their bosses trying to put them out of work.

What do coders do after AI?
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If you need a cathartic release from the news that
Amazon laid off 16,000 workers,
Block chopped nearly half its workforce,
Atlassian pared back 10% of staffers,
and Meta is reportedly considering another massive round of layoffs
-- all in the name of AI,
then we invite you to browse the responses to a recent
Sam Altman post on X.
Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,
shared this on Tuesday:
“I have so much gratitude to people who wrote extrem…

Sam Altman's thank-you to coders draws the memes | TechCrunch
Altman expresses gratitude for people who knew how to write their code from scratch. The internet replies with salty jokes.

I feel like many might be overstating the significance of the Claude Code leak. It's not their model, just the client to connect to it. Sure there's a few funny things in the code, but it changes nothing really to what AI is becoming for coders.
What it shows however is that very high usage of AI for code without proper review and agressive development targets can lead to major mistakes. Anthropic is known for using their own tools quite agrresively.

Perhaps the main difference between myself and vibe coders is that we have completely different backgrounds.
I've learned coding as a kid, with no friends and no Internet. I didn't do it because it was cool; nerdy stuff was the exact opposite of cool and was likely to get you bullied. I didn't do it because it promised good salary; as a 10-year old, I didn't ponder much about my future, let alone salary. I did it because I was bored, and it was something interesting to do.
I didn't do specific exercises, but rather created whatever I've found interesting. I wasn't graded, I had all the time in the world, and I've enjoyed solving problems. Even if I had access to the Internet, I doubt I would start looking for ready solutions and copy-pasting them. My code was always mine, and I was proud of it; at least at the time.
Of course, nowadays I do stuff I don't enjoy as well. But I'm a grown man who takes responsibility for what I do. And even if my code is shit, it is my shit, and 100% eco.
#NoAI #NoLLM

"When you behold the prompt file of a coder using A.I., you are viewing a record of the developer’s attempts to restrain the agents’ generally competent, but unpredictably deviant, actions."
Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
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Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

AI tools like Claude Code have transformed coders' lives, and AI labs are now eyeing a bigger goal: automating everyone's lives and winning the non-coder market (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/claude-code-cu

And a few years later Apple gave us a preview of OpenDoc, which looked like a real contender for a new development model. Which got Steved. @… https://mastodon.social/@jonathanhog…

So.. I have a theory that burned-out coders prefer AI coding agents. Because at the point of burn-out (and beyond), you just stop giving a fuck. You might still like and enjoy your craft, but when it comes to your job (whether that's proprietary or free software), you just want to get through the day and get it done. And if an LLM helps you accomplish that, regardless of ethics or maintainability or boring button-mashing, so be it.

Anthropic are now casting live coders for ad campaigns showing how great Claude is for pushing beyond their capabilities. Not sure it's quite there yet..

Well, I think I've just about had it with "X". I can't access either of my accounts at the moment. The unlocked one was hacked Friday and has started posting Crypto spam on it today, and the locked one seems to be suspended in some way after I changed the password.
X "support" is worse than useless.
Effing "vibe coders" and spammers. 🤬
All non-obvious advice very welcome.

Looks like the vibe coders at Microsoft forgot to add "don't introduce command injection vulnerabilities" to their prompts?
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-20841

Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.