The last line of code I ever wrote

June 2025 was the last time I wrote code by hand.
And it is the last time I will have ever written code by hand in my life.

Yikes! That's taken me a few days to sink in. 
I remember my undergrad days when I'd code all night building Webmail and Lifehacks.  I'd read up every design pattern, every article, scour StackOverflow for every question that remotely related to what I was doing, and naively try to apply it for my use case.
In retrospect, I was learning how to build long term maintainable projects. 
It was difficult, most examples I found online were either too easy, or too difficult to follow.
It was an arduous, gradual process, but I believe that's what it takes for humans to get good at something.

It's March 2026 now.
9 months since I last wrote code by hand.
I have submitted over 5,000 lines of code at the company I joined a few months ago.
I have made over 2,000 commits to personal projects.


And every single one was written by an AI.
I'm not vibe coding, mind you. I have complete control over my codebase.
I know exactly what needs to be done. Why must it be written by hand.

Do I need that oversight today? For now, yes. If I have to maintain something long term, I need it to be clean today.
Will I have such oversight over my codebase in the future?
Less and less. 

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