That’s already a thing in some areas of programming. Block programming, where you just drag and connect blocks, is very possible, especially in game development.

LLMs are shit a doing large code changes, and fundamentally will always be shit at it, because they fundamentally can’t reason. LLMs are good text completers, and that’s their place in the IDE.

My prediction is that most well run organizations are going to push against coding agents soon. Look at the reports that even Amazon is now demanding Senior Engineers reviews for AI code changes and take responsibility, which doesn’t scale now, and will scale even less in the future if we train less coders.

Judging by the quality of software, I’d say hackers went away at least 15 years ago.