Coding Is Hard
Someone has been telling you that coding was never the hard part. That's a lie, and it's the kind of lie that erases the hours you've spent chasing a null pointer that only appears in production, or the race condition that vanishes the moment you add logging. I get the appeal of the claim: it makes AI's sudden competence at generating code feel like the whole problem is solved. But it also conveniently forgets that "just writing code" was never the job. We're in the middle of an upheaval. It's August 8, 2026, and nobody honestly knows how the AI revolution is going to end, except that programming as a profession is going to look different. If coding is so easy, though, then why were programmers in high demand and commanding large salaries for years, even before zero interest rates pumped money into every unprofitable startup? Why was burnout and overwork a running joke across the entire industry before Copilot could even complete a function? Th...