I just finished an absolutely mind-bending 100+ minute conversation with Steve Yegge, and I need to tell you - this man just called 99% of programmers “dinosaurs using Stone Age tools.” Coming from the guy who accidentally leaked that legendary 3,700-word Google+ rant while drunk, joined Amazon as employee #250, and now claims he can write 12,000 lines of production code per day using AI... you might want to listen. He dropped some absolute bombs in this extended cut - like his prediction that within 5 years, traditional coding will be completely obsolete, and how he codes during meetings now because “vibe coding” has become so addictive he literally can’t stop.
The conversation took some wild turns - from why Jeff Bezos personally begged him not to leave Amazon, to his theory that companies will soon face a brutal choice: how many engineers do you fire to pay for AI tools for the rest? What really stuck with me was his comparison to electric vehicles destroying combustion engines - tr…
