What Chris Wellons thinks about AI and jobs

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Software engineer who writes about low-level and systems programming at nullprogram.com; author of the Elfeed feed reader, the Endlessh SSH tarpit and Enchive.

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2 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Chris Wellons has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 29 Mar 2026

   Our readingFrontier AI now outperforms most human programmers at most programming tasks, with very low defect rates.

   Their wordsAI is now highly skilled at programming, and better than me at almost every programming task, with inhumanly-low defect rates.

   ↗2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only Marchnullprogram.com 2nd of 3 in this piece

3. 29 Mar 2026

   Our readingAI will make hand-written code a luxury only the wealthy can afford to produce.

   Their wordsAI makes programming so cheap that only the rich will write code by hand.

   ↗2026 has been the most pivotal year in my career… and it's only Marchnullprogram.com 3rd of 3 in this piece