Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
I wonder when AI will "take over". I have seen many no-code and low-code tools come and go. Anyone remebers Dreamweaver? Its messy output was a great motivation to learn HTML properly, which back then included designing and maintaining complex nested table layouts and iframes. WordPress theme builders, Wix, Webflow and so many others kept promising to obsolete coding. We're still coding. AI agents "can code" and their output might outperform absolute beginners.
But AI coding discussion has already moved on from enthusiasm to disappointment as bugs, outdated tech stacks and subtle implmentation failures creep into code bases thanks to uncritical acceptance of AI coding worse than the past decade's copy-and-paste-from-StackOverflow code slop. AI won't take over. AI is just another tool.
I think you are right for now! But give it a couple of years. I really think coding itself will be completley replaced. I dont see a reason why AI wont be able to do this. It has all the knowledge and ressourceses existing, it just needs to get trained more and more.
Just my personal opinion, and sorry for my english
Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
That would be the case if langauges and libraries wouldn't introduce breaking changes, deprecations and new best practices and hypes every few years. And most of them are less strict than TypeScript, for example, lacking consistency, documentation and best practice examples. Even when AI moves on gets better training, this won't work unless our industry eventually fixes its fixation on "move fast, break things".
Sometimes I code, always I write — A simple man making his way through the galaxy, writing as I go — 📚 Author of "Street-Smart Coding": bit.ly/csarag-ssc
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Sometimes I code, always I write — A simple man making his way through the galaxy, writing as I go — 📚 Author of "Street-Smart Coding": bit.ly/csarag-ssc
Location
Colombia 🇨🇴 (not Columbia)
Work
Content, Courses & Training for .NET teams — Helping teams to write maintainable & performant code
Sometimes I code, always I write — A simple man making his way through the galaxy, writing as I go — 📚 Author of "Street-Smart Coding": bit.ly/csarag-ssc
Location
Colombia 🇨🇴 (not Columbia)
Work
Content, Courses & Training for .NET teams — Helping teams to write maintainable & performant code
I wonder when AI will "take over". I have seen many no-code and low-code tools come and go. Anyone remebers Dreamweaver? Its messy output was a great motivation to learn HTML properly, which back then included designing and maintaining complex nested table layouts and iframes. WordPress theme builders, Wix, Webflow and so many others kept promising to obsolete coding. We're still coding. AI agents "can code" and their output might outperform absolute beginners.
But AI coding discussion has already moved on from enthusiasm to disappointment as bugs, outdated tech stacks and subtle implmentation failures creep into code bases thanks to uncritical acceptance of AI coding worse than the past decade's copy-and-paste-from-StackOverflow code slop. AI won't take over. AI is just another tool.
at 2001 to 2004 dream weaver was magic tool , then we go to eclips . time was runaway now we at 2026
I think you are right for now! But give it a couple of years. I really think coding itself will be completley replaced. I dont see a reason why AI wont be able to do this. It has all the knowledge and ressourceses existing, it just needs to get trained more and more.
Just my personal opinion, and sorry for my english
That would be the case if langauges and libraries wouldn't introduce breaking changes, deprecations and new best practices and hypes every few years. And most of them are less strict than TypeScript, for example, lacking consistency, documentation and best practice examples. Even when AI moves on gets better training, this won't work unless our industry eventually fixes its fixation on "move fast, break things".
This is a good point. I'd like to think AI like some autonomous cars. They still a pair of hands in the wheel
Recently, I heard a more realistic point: AI will replace coding by hand (or from scratch) in the next 5 years.
I do :)
Great point...and chain of thoughts.
Glad to hear I'm not the only one who thinks that...And as a thought experiment?