At "an oh fuck moment in time" I closed off the post with the following quote. N period on from now, software engineers who haven't adopted or started exploring software assistants, are frankly not gonna make it. Engineering organizations right now are split between employees who
There, I said it. I seriously can't see a path forward where the majority of software engineers are doing artisanal hand-crafted commits by as soon as the end of 2026. If you are a software engineer and were considering taking a gap year/holiday this year it would
Been doing heaps of thinking about how software is made after https://ghuntley.com/oh-fuck and the current design/UX approach by vendors of software assistants. IDEs since 1983 have been designed around an experience of a single plane of glass. Restricted by what an engineer can see on their
Over the Christmas break I’ve been critically looking at my own software development loop, learning a new programming language and re-learning a language I haven’t professionally used in over seven years. It's now 2025. Software assistants are now a core staple of my day-to-day life as