No one loves to code; AI reveals it was a forced abstraction
StewartalsopIII · x · 2026-08-31
The author observes that programmers now "vibe code" like him, arguing that people pretended to love coding for 60 years out of necessity. He suggests coding is an abstract hallucination humanity forced itself into and wonders how much of math and science will soon be done by LLMs.
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