Lenny RachitskyHost of Lenny's Podcast | Author of Lenny's Newsletter

Coding is becoming calligraphy

11 Feb 2026 · 1 min

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As AI generates most code, writing it by hand will become rare and prized like calligraphy. Developers will shift to guiding LLMs instead of building from scratch, turning manual coding into an exceptional, celebrated craft.

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Vibe coding is just coding. In 12 months from now, coding is going to be like calligraphy. You writing code is going to be the equivalent of you fine printing on a canvas and people, oh my God, you wrote that code. That's so amazing. It's going to be so rare that it's going to become an art in the world of the future. Everybody is a forward deployed engineer, or an AI assistant engineer, or an LLM engineer, or a Vibe coder. The term is irrelevant. We're all using LLMs for raw output based on good judgment or bad judgment.