"Software is a craft. AI-generated code pollutes our repositories with mediocrity. True engineering demands human understanding, not autocomplete on steroids."
Signatories
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James Long
Creator of Prettier, Actual Budget
"Something about it just feels wrong to me. Like a new level of slop by just getting whatever works. I still don't understand why you don't want to be deeply involved in the creative tech process."
@jlongster
"Ship fast, iterate faster. AI is the ultimate force multiplier. Those who refuse to adapt will be left debugging legacy code while we build the future."
Signatories
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Antirez
Creator of Redis
"Writing code is no longer needed for the most part. It is now a lot more interesting to understand what to do, and how to do it."
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype
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Ryan Dahl
Creator of Node.js & Deno
"This has been said a thousand times before, but allow me to add my own voice: the era of humans writing code is over. Disturbing for those of us who identify as SWEs, but no less true. That's not to say SWEs don't have work to do, but writing syntax directly is not it."
@rough__sea
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Guillermo Rauch
CEO of Vercel
"Opus 4.5 marks a discontinuity in software engineering as a profession."
@rauchg
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Paul Graham
Founder of Y Combinator
"The reason AI coding works so well is that the source code of the median app was already slop before LLMs."
@paulg on X
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Mark Dalgleish
Co-creator of CSS Modules, Vanilla Extract
"I barely code anymore, just chat with an AI. It's not slop. I'm still engineering. I don't feel threatened. Feels like pair programming. I'm enjoying it more than coding by hand."
@markdalgleish
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Grady Booch
Chief Scientist at IBM, Co-creator of UML
"The rise of AI programming agents is changing the nature of software development in the same way as did the introduction of compilers in the time of Grace Hopper."
@Grady_Booch