The End of Programming

Bun 1.4's rewrite from Zig to Rust—completed by one developer using AI agents over 11 days at a cost of roughly $165,000—demonstrates that artificial intelligence is fundamentally transforming software development. The author argues this signals "the end of programming as we know it," as AI agents will increasingly generate the majority of code while humans review only end results rather than the code itself, leading to an exponential explosion in software production visible in recent GitHub data. While this will produce both useful software and "slop," it represents a shift where most code will no longer be written or read by humans.