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The Future of Coding: From Craft to Conversation

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Christopher Brox
Building AI Agents @ Google

In 1969, it took a mass of MIT engineers to write the 145,000 lines of assembly code that landed Apollo 11 on the Moon. In 2026, a single operator with a terminal agent can spin up a production-grade full-stack application before their morning coffee goes cold.

We are living through the most violent compression of creative leverage in the history of computing. And yet, the discourse around AI and coding remains frustratingly binary: either "AI will replace all programmers" or "AI is just a fancy autocomplete." Both camps are wrong. The future of coding is not about replacement or augmentation—it is about a fundamental phase transition in what "coding" even means.