During the AI Outage, Devs Joke: This Is How We Used to Code 5 Years Ago
DanielLockyer · x · 2026-09-03
Amid an AI service outage, developer Daniel Lockyer tweeted a reminder: "this is how we used to write code 5 years ago." The joke: developers are now so dependent on AI coding tools that an outage feels like a trip back to the pre-AI era. It struck a chord across the dev community.
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