One of our senior engineers writes about 1% of his code by hand. Another tried going back to typing it out and gave up.
Nine months ago, Vincent Quigley (
@vincent_builds) and his team at Sanity went AI-first. His new essay is a field report on what actually changed:
→ Coding has moved through four generations: assembly, high-level languages, frameworks cloud, and now AI-first development. Each one raised the abstraction. This one moves the job from implementation to intent.
→ The pipeline reorganized around agents: shape context, write the product spec, let the agent iterate, review like you mean it, ship, monitor.
→ The uncomfortable parts made it in too: roughly $2,000 a month in AI spend, PRs capped near 500 lines so humans can still review them, and days that feel like 2.5 days of work in one.
Less coding. More orchestration.
Read the essay:
sanity.io/blog/we-dont-write…