Coding In AI coding era
Last updated: Sep 15, 2026
Coding has become boring and exciting in the AI coding era. You have access to enough knowledge to do almost anything, and at times you end up doing nothing.
What I mean by AI coding Era here is - the availability of tools like Claude/Codex and other popular coding agents for the masses.
What’s exciting about this
As a developer, you feel invincible. Any task thrown at you - you can handle it.
Even if it’s a new domain,
- you’ll learn the domain and use cases in few hours
- use skills/prompts prepared by experts in the space
- build a prototype or plan to understand what works
- implement something in a few hours or days.
- ship that in a week or two.
What’s not exciting
You start with a task,
- ask an AI agent to research the topic
- build a plan around it
- ask an AI agent to build it
During each of these phases - we wait for the AI agent to work through the steps one by one.
We wait.
Of course - we can pick up other tasks when agents are working - but at some point, it’s too much context switching. You might rush through any of the tasks that you are handling in parallel.
No wonder people built brainrot IDE to fight the boredom and found their way to YC.
Don’t get me wrong - I love coding with AI agents. But at times you miss the joy of finding the right Stack Overflow answer or putting your head down and shipping something all by yourself.