"Hand-writing code will sound like a fever dream to our children," dev predicts
tlakomy · x · 2026-11-05
Developer tlakomy posted a succinct generational take on AI coding: "Programming computers by hand will sound like a fever dream to our children."
The one-liner captures the trajectory of AI-assisted development — as natural-language-driven coding becomes the norm, today's practice of humans typing code line by line may strike the next generation as bizarre.
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