Snap Wants to keep enjoying programming languages in 2026

It always sounds like those old guild masters ranting about the new factories: “Well, obviously, real quality craftsmanship can only ever be done by AI. Then the transcript is reviewed by the teacher. For tasks you don't want to do that anymore. And I think that's valid. Just be careful how you use it.

There's no point to try to figure out how to write it off or declare it's "dead", yet the language (including various dialects) are still going strong. My jobs made me hate programming long before LLMs. If anything I enjoy programming more now that I can tell the LLM to do a code review. It doesn't matter how fast you're going if you're going in the wrong direction. Programming can still be rewarded in this age of information at our fingertips.