2026: The Year the IDE Died (Steve Yegge and Gene Kim Talk AI Coding)

YouTube talk by Steve Yegge and Gene Kim about how AI coding tools might replace today’s IDE as the primary programming environment, and AI workflows.

URL: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Dtu2bilcFs

As I'm working in this future-of-coding-tool space, what do y'all think:

– How far IDEs will really change in the next few years

– Whether we'll still be reading and reasoning about code in our daily work, or almost exclusively higher-level constructs

– What this means senior devs?

- What this means for students starting out now?