Days in the Life of Mo

2025, you chaotic, brilliant, caffeine-fueled year.

You gave us innovation. You gave us automation. You also gave us burnout disguised as productivity and AI tools that think they’re philosophers.

As we pack up another year of commits, crashes, and questionable PR comments, I thought I’d take a moment to reflect, on the programming trends that blessed us… and the ones that absolutely cursed us.

Let’s do this.

The Blessed: Tools, Tech, and Trends That Actually Helped

1. The Rise of Truly Smart AI Pair Programming

By mid-2025, GitHub Copilot, Amazon CodeWhisperer, and JetBrains AI Assistants became less “cute autocomplete” and more like that one colleague who’s actually helpful.
AI stopped just guessing code and started understanding context, file structures, dependencies, even your project’s tone (yes, tone, I caught mine suggesting variable names like calmDown during debugging).

GitHub reported that over 80% of developers now use some form of AI coding assistant daily. For once, automation didn’t feel like the villain, it felt like backup.

We’ll still argue about ethics and originality, but let’s be honest: when you’re on hour four of debugging a missing semicolon, you stop caring who wrote the fix.

2. TypeScript’s Continued World Domination

If 2024 was TypeScript’s reign, 2025 was its coronation.
Everyone from small startups to big enterprise systems finally stopped pretending “JavaScript is enough.”

The beauty of static typing finally clicked for those who spent one too many nights debugging undefined errors. Stack Overflow’s 2025 survey even crowned TypeScript the most-loved programming language for the third consecutive year.

Honestly? Deserved. It’s like JavaScript finally grew up, went to therapy, and started setting boundaries.

3. Serverless 2.0: It Finally Worked as Promised

Remember when “serverless” used to mean “good luck debugging that in production”?
Not anymore.

Platforms like AWS Lambda and Cloudflare Workers got smarter, faster, and actually affordable. 2025 gave us better cold start times, local debugging tools, and pricing models that didn’t feel like emotional manipulation.

Serverless finally felt… grown. Like it went from chaos toddler to functional adult.

4. WebAssembly Quietly Revolutionized Everything

WebAssembly (Wasm) continued to blur the line between web and native development in 2025.
Running Python, Rust, or C++ directly in browsers without plugins? Still wild.

Mozilla’s latest report even showed over 30% of web apps now rely on Wasm components for performance-heavy tasks. We might not talk about it much, but it’s the quiet genius making the web feel faster and more capable.

Think of Wasm as the introvert at the dev party, not loud, but essential.

The Cursed: Trends That Tested Our Sanity

1. AI-Generated Frameworks That Nobody Asked For

Look, I love AI. But 2025 also gave us an explosion of AI-generated frameworks that promised to “redefine development.”

Half of them looked like someone asked ChatGPT to remix React and Vue while blindfolded.
The result? A graveyard of npm packages with one version, zero docs, and a README written like a cry for help.

Just because AI can generate frameworks doesn’t mean it should.

2. Subscription Fatigue: The SaaS Apocalypse

Remember when you could just buy a tool? Yeah, me neither.

2025 turned everything into a subscription, your IDE, your API manager, your design tools, even your color picker (yes, that happened).

Developers everywhere started tracking monthly tool costs like rent payments.
At this point, I’m one invoice away from building my own text editor in protest.

3. The Great “Everything Must Be AI” Craze

2025 was the year companies realized the fastest way to get funding was to sprinkle “AI” somewhere in their pitch deck.

AI weather app. AI calculator. AI button clicker.
It got ridiculous.

We love innovation, but not every problem needs a neural network. Sometimes, a simple if statement will do.

4. Remote Work vs. “Return to Office” Drama

Developers continued fighting the good fight: convincing management that productivity isn’t tied to office Wi-Fi.

2025 saw more hybrid compromises, and more memes about bad office coffee. Some companies learned; others doubled down.

According to a GitLab remote report, 83% of developers still prefer remote or hybrid setups. Which makes sense. My home chair knows me better than HR at this point.

Final Thoughts: Blessed or Cursed, We Built Anyway

2025 gave us AI copilots that wrote code and burnout that wrote essays.
We found new frameworks to love, new bugs to hate, and new ways to argue about tabs vs. spaces.

But we kept building. We always do.

And maybe that’s the real blessing, not the tools or the trends, but the quiet persistence of people who keep showing up to make things work.

So here’s to 2026: may it bless our repos, spare our mental health, and finally give us a version of npm that doesn’t break everything on update.

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