Home About Me YouTube Inkdrop Sign in Subscribe Productivity Hackers and photographers Takuya Matsuyama 03 Oct 2026 — 6 min read Share Inu-san is painting a landscape and turns around in surprise when he realizes a camera is pointed at him 💡I used AI to fix my grammar mistakes and awkward phrasing.Hey, what's up? It's Takuya here.
Agentic coding has become a crucial workflow these days. It has completely changed the landscape and perspective of software development, even for indie developers like me. At the same time, many of us are anxious about this drastic economic change. For most of us, this is the biggest paradigm shift we've experienced as programmers.
I struggled to accept it, and it took me a long time to get through bargaining and depression. But after using Opus 5.5, I felt AI had become smart enough for me to quit writing code myself. Now I've mainly been reviewing generated code in Neovim. It will keep evolving, and I'm certain I'll be touching lines of code less and less in the future.
Now, I'd like to discuss what we should learn and how we should change our mental model of programming. Also, I thought it'd be interesting to take a snapshot of my thoughts and feelings in this unique moment.
There is a popular book called Hackers & Painters by Paul Graham. It argues that hackers are makers, like painters, rather than scientists or mathematicians. One quote beautifully describes how we built software in the pre-AI age:
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