Here’s what happened.
Ona describes a ten-day experiment in generating and shipping code. People wrote specifications, configured the automation and reviewed escalations. The account offers a concrete example of development work moving from typing code toward defining and supervising the process.
The We Are So Done take
First we automated the repetitive code. Then the interesting code. Now we spend our time explaining what the code should do. Programming is becoming management, which is a particularly elaborate way to ruin a perfectly good hobby.
For those of us already clicking
Read the working conditions
- Access
- A published account of one team’s experiment.
- Start here
- Compare the specification, automation and escalation work with your own project before borrowing the headline.
- The small print
- A claim about code written without human typing is not a claim about a project delivered without human work. This report comes from the team behind the experiment, and does not establish performance on another project.
Follow the evidence.
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Sources checked 2026-09-23 · Editorial updated 2026-09-23