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Ben Awad: 'hand-written code is dead'. I agree with the premise, disagree with the conclusion.
In January 2026, Ben Awad posted a video that went viral: 'hand-written code is basically dead'. Months later, real cases started confirming the thesis — a single prompt modifying 500,000 lines, games with 95% AI-generated code, Steve Yegge building agents that coordinate agents. I agree manual typing is dying. I disagree that means the end of critical code review.
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110,000 layoffs, $725 billion in AI: the paradox that defines 2026
On June 22, 2026, Oracle revealed it had cut 21,000 people over 12 months. The same week, analysts calculated that Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Google will spend $725 billion on AI this year. The industry is laying off 864 devs a day while investing $370 million a day in data centers. The money has to come from somewhere — and it's coming from payroll.
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Vibe coding: hype, reality, and when it actually makes sense
In February 2025, Andrej Karpathy named vibe coding in a tweet. A year later, he himself called the term passé and adopted a new one: agentic engineering. Between the two ends of that arc lies a trail of careless prompts, exposed databases, and one embarrassing statistic: 45% of AI-generated code carries an OWASP vulnerability.