Silicon Valley programmers abandon traditional coding for AI agents like Claude Code; developers now write prompts, plead with AI in plain English instead of writing code line-by-line as tools complete work in minutes versus days.

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It

You have been granted access, use your keyboard to continue reading.Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del PlatoIn the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.Credit...Illustration by Pablo Delcan and Danielle Del PlatoClive ThompsonClive Thompson interviewed more than 70 software developers at Google, Amazon, Microsoft and small start-ups. He is the author of “Coders: The Making of a New ...