Five Years of AI Coding in One Joke: From Fancy Autocomplete to Doing Your Entire Job
shauseth · x · 2026-09-10
A viral-style year-by-year recap of how developers' attitudes toward AI coding have shifted:
- 2021: fancy autocomplete
- 2022: wait, you can chat with it
- 2023: terrible at code
- 2024: good for hobby projects
- 2025: at least I still read code
- 2026: it does my entire job, my side projects, and finds me good shopping deals
Six lines that capture the community's arc from dismissiveness to conceding that reading code is the last human skill left — with a wry nod to full AI takeover.
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