AI killed programming for me

So, I’ve been a so-called software engineer since mid-2016. Around that time, I started my apprenticeship at the Swiss web-hosting company, cyon. I was mainly working with legacy codebases written in Zend — one of the first PHP frameworks that somewhat introduced the MVC architecture to the PHP world. It was nothing fancy, but it got the job done. Also, ten years of legacy added a lot of complexity to it, so it was rather complicated navigating that mess of a codebase. ...

April 26, 2026 · Samuel Nussbaumer