# My obituary for programming

- Source: Simon Willison (LLMs)
- Published: 2026-10-19T23:58:25+00:00
- Category: Tech
- Original: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/19/my-obituary-for-programming/
- Canonical: https://groundlevelnews.com/story/my-obituary-for-programming-af02b0/

My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you could imagine. You got paid to work on tricky little logic puzzles. The trickier the puzzle, the more you got paid. But even pretty simple puzzles were worth a lot of money because r

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