Hugging Face's Thom Wolf on the End of Hand-Chiseled Code and a New Career Steering Intelligence
vykthur · x · 2026-09-27
Hugging Face co-founder Thom Wolf posted a reflective farewell: the era of chiseling code by hand is over, and software engineers are moving into a new career as 'professional makers of things,' steering intelligence that until recently existed only in science fiction. He calls it a privilege to have been there both when everything was done by hand and at the exact moment of the switch. The person amplifying it called it a speech every engineer — and every person — should hear.
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