> I’ve been saying since last year that by the end of 2026, people will be mostly programming by talking to a face. There’s absolutely NO reason to type with the Mayor. You should be able to chat with them like a person. You’ll have a cartoon fox there onscreen, in costume, building and managing your production software, and showing you pretty status updates whenever you ask for one. This is the end state for IDEs.

This is a desirable end state for highly social but perhaps slightly sociopathic extroverts who want to spend all day talking even though they aren't talking to a person.

For anyone else, it's hard to imagine considering that a desirable way to spend eight hours a day.

This sounds like PaulHoule wrote it.

Eh there's also introverts like me that find typing too slow and having a conversation with a computer is my ideal interaction :)

>This is a desirable end state for [a category of people] who want to spend all day talking even though they aren't talking to a person.

When I am not in actual meetings, I do already spend all day talking to anthropomorphized facets of my personality that represent software architecture, security paranoia, operational practicality, user experience, etc. Often not by speaking aloud, but it's a conversation nonetheless.

So yes, this sounds absolutely grand.

EDIT: But I don't think it should be forced on everyone! Having the option to use the tools that work best for you should be the goal.