2026 is the year you stop reading code

(notes.iunknown.com)

11 points | by azhenley 6 hours ago

7 comments

  • ofjcihen 2 hours ago
    As an incident responder who makes a killing in emergency contracts:

    Yes, absolutely do this.

  • perrygeo 2 hours ago
    No, this is quite backwards. I find myself reading code more, to gain context and build the theory for the feature I'm working on. The time it takes to write the code is now trivial compared to designing a good idea. Reading/thinking about code absolutely dominates now that writing code is cheap.
  • TheCleric 2 hours ago
    Yeah I’m still going to read AND write code thanks.
  • codingdave 6 hours ago
    > In software, the things that matter are durable artifacts: diffs, commits, PR conversations, failing tests, logs, benchmarks, small design notes, repro scripts, traces. That’s what you actually reason with.

    No, the author utterly misses the point. What matters is the final product that the end users see. Everything in the list above are artifacts of a dev process that truly doesn't mean squat to the end users. Those were all developed to help human coders.

    If you truly believe AI is the way forward, and you believe that people are going to move out of the loop, then nothing in that list matters for the AI-driven future. That is actually the list of tools that needs to be thrown in the garbage and replaced by something new that helps AI perform its function.

  • ande-mnoc 1 hour ago
    100% AI written according to Pangram, damn.
  • lowlevel 1 hour ago
    Well, stop reading AI generated code maybe ;)
  • sibeliuss 6 hours ago
    Get this ai writing slop outta here. People have zero shame anymore.
    • scared_together 2 hours ago
      I guess “2026 is the year you stop reading generic blogs”