The times are changing, and fast. Just a month ago I wrote about my skepticism, maybe even pessimism, about AI coding tools. My conclusion was that AI was a force multiplier for both good and bad, and with worries about an incoming "slopacalypse". I would characterize my feelings…
My conclusion has been that AI tools are force multipliers. But just think about the skill of the average person. Think about the quality of average, publicly-available code. The average force is close to zero or even negative.…
Stop and smell the roses, but there were no roses. I still stopped. Over the Thanksgiving weekend I took a trip down to Joshua Tree National Park in southern California. From where I am in the bay area, this is about an 8 hour drive without traffic. From where my…
Every line of code is a bet that it will provide more business value than it will cause maintenance burden and cognitive load on future engineers…
The robots are coming for my job, and I want them to take it…
I've spent the last couple months trying to get more and more comfortable working with Clojure, a functional programming language built for the JVM (and other things, but I'm starting from the basics). It's one of those languages with a nearly cult-like following: Clojure…
I've written before on my experience trying to incorporate a "second brain" into my workflow, and how that didn't work for me. And I really thought I would be able to go the rest of my life not tempted by the thought of these…