Steve Yegge
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first heard Dec 2025
last heard 26 Dec
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So lines of code, commits, business impact, whatever.
And it's it's so stark and pronounced that the people who aren't adopting it are now 10 times less productive at performance review time.
Two people, same title, same job, and all of a sudden one of them is 10 times as productive as the other one.
What do you
do and the answer is you panic you actually go to hr and you go to legal and you're like what are our options here because the time is coming okay here's another hot take all right if you're still using an IDE to develop code by
January first.
You're a bad engineer.
Mm-hmm.
There's a there's a hot take for you, right?
Now you still have uh what five, six weeks to to still be an okay engineer while you're using your IDE, but this is the time that you need to drop it and learn how agents code.
Okay, because it's a skill set.
I mean, it's so complicated.
We wrote this book about it, me and Gene Kim, because we were, you know, we were playing with it ourselves last year and we're blogging about it and talking about it, and every blog post was 30 pages.
It's like, what are you gonna do with a 30-page blog post?
That's long, even for me, right?
Yeah.
Yeah.
And at some point I was just, man, like the skills that you gotta learn in order to get the AI to do the things that everyone's mad because it's doing them, right?
Because everybody's everybody's like, well, I tried it.
I spent two hours with it, and all it produced was garbage.
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