End of an Era. Manual Coding is Dead. AI Takes Over. (2026)

By Xah Lee. Date: 2026-04-27.

2026-04-27

manual coding dead

incredible to see chris wellons stopped writing code and stopped using emacs.
he now just use ai to code. this year.
manually coding, is going away.

Chris Wellons (aka skeeto)

Chris Wellons ai 2026-04-27 0da04 — Chris Wellons ai 2026-04-27 0da04 https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/03/29/

Chris Wellons stop emacs 2026-04-27 0d9c7 — Chris Wellons stop emacs 2026-04-27 0d9c7 https://nullprogram.com/blog/2026/04/26/

Chris Wellons 2026-04-27 0d6eb — Chris Wellons 2026-04-27 0d6eb https://lists.sr.ht/~skeeto/public-inbox/%3C56838f02-d1cf-4d32-97c3-66ebc2c3f600@gmail.com%3E

2026-04-27

no more new programing languages?

One effect of adopting ai coding is that it'll delay the death of C and Cpp. sad.

Actually, i think it stops new programing languages. e.g. the many new programing languages in past 10 years, i think it's coming to a stop.