The end of programming — Paul Dix
Creating software by writing code by hand and having humans review it is coming to an end. Why the Bun 1.4 release marks the end of programming as we've known it.
2026-08-25 Last week Bun 1.4 was released. This was the one that contains the rewrite of Bun from Zig into Rust, apparently containing more than 1 millions new lines of Rust code. And while this caused a bunch of drama in the programming community centered around the language switch, I think the most important thing about this release is how the rewrite was done and the scale of it. The details of this, along with my own experiences, and soon to arrive advances in AI lead me to believe that we’ve arrived at the end of programming as we know it. What I mean by this is that I think the act…
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