Veteran developer: last time I coded by hand was January 2026, and I'm never going back
facontidavide · x · 2026-09-08
A veteran developer who started coding in the late 1980s and shipped multiple OSS projects over the past decade wrote a reflective thread: his last hand-written code was in January 2026, and he's certain he'll never go back. In his view frontier models now beat him at almost everything; his remaining edge in "taste" is only a matter of time. Not bitter, just a little melancholic — a skill that once made him feel like a badass is fully commoditized — but he looks forward with excitement.
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