Since we keep coming back to this topic, I thought I'd at least have a thread to keep interesting links or updates in.
Another recent post in the "AI killed my ability to program well and now I'm stopping" genre:
https://blog.bustikiller.com/2026/09/25/one-month-without-ai.html
A thing I do worry about is whether these are actually relatively isolated cases in an industry where very very few people are going to buck the trend. But these sorts of things are definitely persuading me that coding with LLMs just isn't something I want to do at all even if it does become the sole long-term norm for how people write computer code.
A thing I find odd, conversely, is how little any software I use has increased its utility to me in years. We now apparently have faster coding than ever, but I don't think my own use of any software has improved since 2010 except that I can now play some games that hadn't been written yet then. I guess there must be a lot of software engineering that's about building weird proprietary business systems, but I've talked to very few (not zero, but few) people who've mentioned their workplace computer systems really getting noticeably better in recent years either. My workplace got a whole new academic reporting system and it's maybe one step per entry quicker than the old one but most of the effort seems to have gone into looks rather than functional improvement honestly. I guess the point here being: does coding faster actually solve anyone's problems/is that the actual bottleneck?