Here are three things I enjoyed in June that are probably short-lived pleasures.
1. AI-generated websites are better than ever
The designs are beautiful, the performance is excellent, and accessibility is no longer an afterthought. I used to maintain a dozen WordPress sites for friends and family. A good number of those I have now simply replaced with something that is objectively 1000x better.
It feels great to have the best-looking site of anyone in my circle. But it is obvious that within a few years, the majority of websites will look this good. What I consider exceptional today will be the new baseline. To stand out again by then, you will need to come up with something else entirely.
2. Paying off tech debt with AI
Last week I was genuinely stunned when Fable came out and effortlessly solved two problems I had given up on months ago, leaving ugly workarounds in their place. Refactoring large chunks of code no longer feels intimidating either. The agent knows exactly how I want my code structured and what kind of tests to write to minimize regressions. I can lean back and watch it happen.
It still feels wonderful. But I expect that keeping a codebase clean will soon be a cron job that runs in the background without any human in the loop ("agent looping" is already all the hype as I'm writing this).
3. Personal automation
I was among the first in my office to build a pipeline where an agent pulls information from various sources and triages it: drafting replies to people who asked me something, creating tickets in our official ticket system, or — if a ticket already exists but there is no pull request yet — opening a draft PR that I only need to review.
This saves me a lot of time and it is genuinely satisfying to use. But I can also see that ticket systems were built for human engineers. I would not be surprised if these systems do not survive much longer in their current form, and everything eventually just flows through an agent.
Whats next?
It sounds depressing to realize that all these cool things won’t last. But I’m also sure there will be equally cool things to enjoy in the age of agentic coding, where AI keeps improving at a bizarre pace. I just don’t know what they’ll be yet.