What Steve Yegge thinks about code generation

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Software engineer of four decades who spent years at Amazon and Google, wrote the Stevey's Blog Rants essays, and co-authored the book Vibe Coding with Gene Kim.

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1. 11 Mar 2026

   Our readingLanguage choice is a temporary artefact of training data; in the fullness of time every language will work equally well with AI.

   Their wordsBut right now we're in a funny place where the some languages work better than others still because they have better training data, but in the fullness of time, all languages will work equally well.

   ↗From IDEs to AI Agents with Steve Yeggeyoutube.com 25th of 25 in this recording