Coding is now specification, and the number of people who can do it just went from thirty million to a billion.

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  Vibe coding teaches nothing but empty calories: to become a competent programmer you have to program, and if it can be vibe-coded, you are not a programmer.

  Huang says coding is now specification and the number of people who can do it went from thirty million to a billion. Hansson says vibe coding teaches nothing but empty calories and that if it can be vibe-coded you are not a programmer. Huang is counting the billion; Hansson says they have not learned the thing being counted.

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• Agents can build about half a million lines before the codebase dissolves into a mess, and the next model will push that to a few million. SYSteve Yegge11 Mar 2026
• Working with coding agents is exhausting rather than deskilling, and that exhaustion — not the technology — is what limits how many projects one engineer can run at once. SWSimon Willison19 Mar 2026
• More code will be written in the next five years than in the whole history of software. RKRita Kozlov6 Apr 2025
• Predicting that AI would write 90% of the code was never a prediction that we would need 90% fewer software engineers. DADario Amodei13 Feb 2026
• The case for sweating every line of code was premised on humans doing the modifications, and it now survives only because tokens are scarce. DHDavid Heinemeier Hansson26 Aug 2026

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