GitHub is having a tough time. Their uptime (or rather, lack thereof) has become a meme, they’re facing exponential usage growth thanks to AI, and now high-profile projects like Ghostty are moving away. Developers are starting to discuss what they want from an alternative.
I just-one-more-prompt’ed myself into a new project over the weekend.
I love coding with AI. I often have several parallel agents, across multiple projects, running off on various coding errands for me. Like Craig Mod, I’m software bonkers: I just can’t stop building software.
I’m a heavy AI user these days — most of my commits are co-authored with Claude. My output is much higher than it would be otherwise, and I’m having more fun.
It’s a strange time to be a software engineer. We’re speedrunning a technical revolution that transforms our industry from one of craftsmanship to mass production and cheap code. This is painful to those who, like me, identified with the art and elegance of programming, and now have to reckon with the fact that we’re no longer artists but just people who type for money.