GoKawiilJuly 24, 2026
When Claude Code blew up in popularity near the end of December 2025, a large portion of software developers quickly shifted to using coding agents as part of their main development workflows.
Andrej Karpathy, who coined the term "vibe coding," stated on the No Priors podcast in March 2026:
I don't think I've typed like a line of code probably since December, basically, which is an extremely large change. I don't think a normal person actually realizes that this happened or how dramatic it was.
I believe him. A lot of people say this is just marketing or hype, but as someone who also hasn't written a single line of code since last year, I think he's being honest here. Now, whether that's good or bad depends on your perspective, but there's no doubt that we've entered a new era of software engineering.
Despite the quick adoption of agents, there's a general anxiety growing among the practitioners, and the people watching their output: will the tidal wave of slop ever end? Are we destroying ourselves for the sake of convenience here? How do we stop this?
Intent Above Code
Grady Booch, co-creator of UML, actually argues that we're in the third golden age of software engineering:
The first, from the late 1940's to the 1970's, was the age of the algorithm. High-level languages and compilers abstracted away the machine.
The second, from the 1970's to the 2000's, was the age of object-oriented abstraction.
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