2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding)

5 points • mikebiglan • 1 day ago • 9 comments

YouTube talk by Steve Yegge and Gene Kim about how AI coding tools might replace today’s IDE as the primary programming environment, and AI workflows.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtu2bilcFs

As I'm working in this future-of-coding-tool space, what do y'all think:

– How far IDEs will really change in the next few years

– Whether we'll still be reading and reasoning about code in our daily work, or almost exclusively higher-level constructs

– What this means senior devs?

- What this means for students starting out now?