We Are Not Going Back

I don’t think we will ever go back to how we used to program. And it happened so fast that I didn’t even notice when it happened. One day I was writing code. The next day I was… still writing code, but with AI. And then at some point it flipped. Now I’m mostly directing code. Reviewing. Prompting. Iterating. The AI writes most of it. It wasn’t a dramatic shift. It was subtle. A little bit more capable every week. And suddenly I’m here, doing the dishes, realizing that everything has changed and I don’t know exactly when.