On May 20 I watched @bcherny claim nobody will use code editors by the end of the year. Bold. I've shipped with agentic tools, editors and APIs for years — but never the CLI.
Why not? After almost 20 years in this game, letting something install itself into my terminal feels like handing a stranger the keys to the flat. I'm basically a punch-card veteran.
So I did the only reasonable thing: I made it a challenge. One month of Claude Code, Pro-Max x20. No safety net. Let's see what the thing can really do.
We have to stop using AI one-dimensionally. The future is multi-dimensional.
(My learning — sorry for the "we", maybe I just missed the memo.) It hit me on June 20 and hasn't let go since. I can barely put it into words; even highly skilled colleagues call me crazy. Maybe I am. Maybe I just think too abstract. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Still — I'm convinced multi-, even cluster-multi-dimensional AI is where this goes. Sounds nuts? Here's an example:
→ a-living-dev-team-multiverse (BobHub — GitHub as an organism, open source that evolves itself)
Or how I think AI should evolve:
→ the specialist stack (if you want the job done right, hire a professional)
It's not about what you can do anymore.
It's about what you can imagine (and describe).
Or — beyond your imagination: The Company of 2028 →
My job was usually: build me my dream product, fast. I was good at it — mostly because I ignored what the client asked for. I'd look at their processes and their pain and build the product they needed, not the one in their head.
Funny enough, that's exactly what people now expect from AI: they ask for a thing, they get the thing, then they're annoyed — because secretly they wanted so much more.
Want the boring facts? → /me
This one's for my coder heroes and nerds in general. I was never big in open source (a little capistrano-postgres, the Rails port of laquer/Varnish — that's about it). I've basically never posted anything, anywhere. I just did the work.
So this time I go public — mostly to find out if anyone thinks like this, or if I'm just nuts. So: /grill-me. — @trendgegner
Written June 26, by me. I'm not a writer, sometimes I'm root, ick bin een Berliner. Don't grill me on grammar or commas — it's about the big picture.
