I was the bemused recipient of a couple of Twitter screenshots in a Slack DM this morning. One was Boris Cherny saying pretty much 100% of Claude Code's code is written by Claude Code, and that he personally hadn’t made even small edits by hand for months. The other was a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI saying programming "always sucked" and when asked what percentage of coding is done from OpenAI models, replied: "100%, I don’t write code anymore."

I'm disheartened by this "good riddance" attitude. Do others here feel the same?

My goal is also to write as little code as possible. Not because I want to push the work onto AI, but because I want as little code to exist as possible. Code equals liability, and bugs live in code, so I always strive for the bare minimum of it.

I keep a mental model of a codebase. In my head it’s abstracted into a kind of "mind palace" where I can move around without language or syntax. Lately I’ve started separating code into two categories: code I don’t need to model in my head (low liability, because it follows established conventions), and code I can’t resist modeling in my head (innovative, new patterns, high liability). The first is easy to delegate to an AI agent. The second is too enjoyable and satisfying to stay away from. I’ll spar with an agent, but I still want to keep my mind palace in sync with the code.

Are we really going to give up our relationship with code?