
The Inflection Point: Why Renowned Programmers Changed Their Minds on AI Coding
As I write this today in mid of January 2026, I can't shake off this feeling. Something flipped in last few weeks. Hackernews/reddit are filled with links to posts from purist, respected programmers (that I have personally looked up to since 2007 when I started studying programming) suddenly singing praises of LLM coding. Some of these had previously written off "(Vibe/Agentic) Coding with AI" as something that was good for hobby/mini projects, code reviews or first draft.