Graydon Hoare's Dark Timeline Shows What We're Not Pricing In

Sun, 12 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000

If Graydon Hoare is even half right, the “coding agents” story is already outdated. Writing code was the story of 2025; 2026 is about offense. Vulnerability discovery is now cheaper than maintenance. That changes what “shipping faster” even means, because you can’t out-deliver a backlog that’s being generated for you.

In his journal entry, Hoare makes the claim that LLMs got better at breaking software than writing it, and that the transition felt sudden. “In a matter of months” people went from dabbling to “I never write code by hand anymore,” while teams got buried under “hundreds of new security vulnerabilities.”

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Graydon Hoare's Dark Timeline Shows What We're Not Pricing In