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Related: the gap in human engineering skills is widened through llms rather than closed. People who learned reasoning about code are now extremely outperforming people who were just looking at code through a predefined flow like an IDE. The skill issue is going to become more extreme.

Ricardo J. Méndez@ricardo.bsky.social

The IDE was a useful bundle when devs had to manually navigate text. The agent does the navigating (and a ton of editing!) now, so the bundle stops earning its keep. Cleanest unbundling keeps winning. numergent.com/2026-05/IDE-...

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