Re:Jonathan Blow – If AI Solved Coding, Why Is My Software S...
by LdBaringSwallow on Friday November 13, 2026 @12:58PM
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We did have 30 years of software advancement; LLM are the next step. I would argue what we didn't have was 30 years of hardware advancement as everyone bought x86_64
Blow and coders have a hammer so all they see is nails; it didn't "solve coding" AI solved "machine state management". Totally different; human tagging/coding will still exist just at the presentation layer cause we don't need a bunch of syntax like:
def sumAllCustomerAccounts() {
Some desired physical state of machine based on mathematical axioms
}
AI solved naming that function (the coding with human context part) with
f() { generate a function to add all customer balances}
We moving on from 1960s and 70s machine state management, pushing context coding to the presentation layer
Blow is just doing that thing humans do where they wrap their entire identity up in who they were 30 years ago and still think that's who they are today and will be tomorrow; rotary phone companies, bowling alley equipment manufacturers... call out a high tech or even social service like religion...new generations are superseding them... circle of life Simba
Not really gonna put Blow and Carmack on a pedestal; they never invented computers or software dev. They came along in the middle of the hype. The read the manual for old machines. We're just moving on to new kinds of machines.
People flipped out over the printing press too. Nothing to see here; it's just the upper bound of the middle age generation having a mid-life crisis
Blow and coders have a hammer so all they see is nails; it didn't "solve coding" AI solved "machine state management". Totally different; human tagging/coding will still exist just at the presentation layer cause we don't need a bunch of syntax like:
def sumAllCustomerAccounts() { Some desired physical state of machine based on mathematical axioms }
AI solved naming that function (the coding with human context part) with
f() { generate a function to add all customer balances}
We moving on from 1960s and 70s machine state management, pushing context coding to the presentation layer
Blow is just doing that thing humans do where they wrap their entire identity up in who they were 30 years ago and still think that's who they are today and will be tomorrow; rotary phone companies, bowling alley equipment manufacturers... call out a high tech or even social service like religion...new generations are superseding them... circle of life Simba
Not really gonna put Blow and Carmack on a pedestal; they never invented computers or software dev. They came along in the middle of the hype. The read the manual for old machines. We're just moving on to new kinds of machines.
People flipped out over the printing press too. Nothing to see here; it's just the upper bound of the middle age generation having a mid-life crisis