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 may evolve:

→ the multi-purpose-professional-model approach (hire a professional)

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.

Soon is now. The computer jobs aren't going someday — they're going now. We've hit the point where it's about architecture and creative design; the tools are already here.

We're the ones who'll implement the future. So let's ask for fair deals: when the work goes, it goes hard for everyone — and harder for a junior secretary than for a senior Java dev. Same boat.

Equal payouts — or better, flip it: the lower your income, the higher your share. Everyone needs to make it until the world adapts to "soon is now". Thanks a lot.