Human-written code died in 2025. Code reviews will die in 2026.
The Death of Software Development
The job of software developer is dead. You might still be coding, but the profession as you knew it is gone.
Reports of code's death are greatly exaggerated
A sufficiently detailed spec is code begins with this lovely comic:
7. Death, and how tech forgot about mortality / Michael Kibedi / FFConf 2024
Agents Done Right: A Framework Vision for 2026
Agents choke on context, loop on failures, and dump walls of code for review. It's time to rethink the architecture.
Hey, Computer Scientists! Stop Hating on the Humanities
Opinion: Computer science departments need to teach coders more than just how to code.
Databases in 2025: A Year in Review
The world tried to kill Andy off but he had to stay alive to to talk about what happened with databases in 2025.
Coding Is Dead, Long Live Programming — Ian Cooper - Staccato Signals
Summary In this post, we argue that the role of a coder now belongs to a coding agent, but that the distinct role of a programmer define...
The AI Engineering Report 2026: The AI Acceleration Whiplash - Ten Takeaways
What two years of telemetry data from 22,000 developers reveals about AI's real impact on developer productivity, code quality, and business risk in 2026.
The Once And Future Fable #3: Fix This Code
The mainstream media continues to sleep on the most important story in the world.
Dragon Quest VII and Reimagining the Critic in 2026 - Unwinnable
We must kill the content creator inside of us that has taken over our being like a body snatcher.
US man dies by suicide after developing emotional bond with AI chatbot: 'I am scared to die'
Florida man suicide after weeks with Google Gemini chatbot sparks wrongful death lawsuit, raising urgent questions over AI safety and mental health safeguards.
