Well, it happened. As of mid-February 2026, I effectively no longer handwrite code.

If you had asked me six weeks ago when we’d cross that chasm, I would have said “maybe end of 2026.” But life comes at you fast.

I’m not alone in this, of course. Boris Cherny, creator of Claude Code, says:

100% of my code is written by Claude Code. I have not edited a single line by hand since November. I think at this point it’s safe to say that coding is largely solved. And so now we’re starting to think about okay what’s next.

The most remarkable thing in all this is the distinct feeling of acceleration. Part of the nature of being on a psuedo-exponential curve is that every moment feels way faster than the last. It’s hard for me to imagine where we’ll be by the end of this year, let alone five years from now. So I’m just enjoying the ride (and shipping more than I ever have before).

It’s worth noting that this is not yet at all the same as saying “my coding skills & engineering background are useless” (although that may not be far off). There are a ton of things I find where that knowledge still matters a lot. The way I go about prompting the agents; the ways in which I correct the models’ plans; the libraries I point them towards; how I test the product and what modifications I ask for; reviewing the code for dumb things the models tend to do; the idiosyncratic architectural approaches I suggest for certain products and use cases.

I observe that the people who are most productive now with coding agents have some level of management experience — because those skills (delegating, editing, directing, testing…) are in fact often management skills. (See my previous post We’re all the editors now).

So my saying “I effectively no longer handwrite code” is not the same as “everyone now has equal ability to do software engineering.” Non-technical vibecoding remains incredible for many use cases, but for complex products still creates buggy balls of mud that are hard to maintain and continue to improve (again: this may not last long).

Although I will say that the vanguard of non-technical vibecoding seems to be advancing quite a bit too. A friend of mine took my recent posts about Congruence, an app I made, and fed the links to Claude Code and asked it to reproduce the app. It did. (You should try this too, if you’re interested!)

What pushed me over the edge of no longer handwriting code? Opus 4.6, GPT-5.3 Codex, and the Claude Code, Codex, and OpenCode harnesses making big strides through January and February of this year. It suddenly no longer made sense for me to write code myself.

I can’t wait to see what the rest of this year brings.

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