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I'm convinced we are cycling through the stages of programming as it becomes commoditized.
by MattDaEskimo 8mo ago
I'm convinced we are cycling through the stages of programming as it becomes commoditized.
- reconnecting 8mo agoI propose 'fast coding'. Like fast fashion, but for software development. One piece of software, one-time use: run, have fun, delete. No maintenance, no support, and no regret. Show HN Spring/Summer 2026.
- kevin_thibedeau 8mo agoThin clients next month?
- reconnecting 8mo agoNo need, my minitel is still running.
- Gormo 8mo agoThat'd be true if there were more TUI applications being developed, but I'm not sure that's necessarily the case, since there have always been a lot of them out there. It seems like people are talking about them more often, though.
- backscratches 8mo agoDefinitely more too thanks to really mature rust tui tooling
- reconnecting 8mo agoNot accurate. Claude suggests TUI as the first option for everything: Go, Python, Rust.
- backscratches 8mo agoI don't understand your meaning. Github lists almost 5,000 TUIs released since January 1, 2026. [1] [1] https://github.com/search?q=Tui+created%3A%3E2026-01-01+&type=repositories https://github.com/search?q=Tui+created%3A%3E2026-01-01+&typ...
- reconnecting 8mo agoExactly. If you take a look, most of these repos have Claude as a contributor, so I suppose it's Claude that recommends using TUIs and not the developers themselves. In the same period of 2024, there were ~700 repos on github.
- backscratches 8mo agoMaybe you're right, but my hunch is AI has increased the number of all types of projects, and would have to see some evidence that AI was disproportionately building TUIs. The trend of new TUIs was well known before coding agents were a thing, and my evidence is the half dozen or so tools I use every single day that came out less than ten years ago but before coding agents.