“Nobody writes .tikz code anymore,” jokes a developer in the AI era
drscotthawley · x · 2026-07-27
A developer jokes that maybe not nobody writes code anymore — but certainly nobody writes .tikz code anymore.
The punchline is that if the generated output looks right, that is all that matters, which turns the old painstaking TikZ workflow into an AI-era meme.
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