General AI Update

I haven’t posted in a bit, but I feel bad leaving my last post at the top of my blog. I think my position at the time was reasonable: in mid-2025, “I’m skeptical but curious and experimenting” was a defensible stance, but that was a million years ago. In 2026 (and really, as of late 2025), approximately 100% of the code I write, professionally and personally, is written by an LLM. I feel like this is the point in every post about LLMs where I walk through the history of the last few years: tab complete -> chat interfaces -> “something changed” in the fall of 2025. But let’s skip all that. Here’s where I’m at right now: Hand-writing code is basically done. Or, at least, it’s done in the sense that hand-building chairs is done: people will still do it, but only as a hobby or point of pride. Effectively all chairs that most people sit in today are built by machines and effectively all software written from here on out will be written by LLMs. I’m really sad about that because I love…