Grunt Loud. Be Happy
There are very few things in life that can't be fixed by a walk and a crunchy snack…
Is it Excitement, or Dread?
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…
Skeptic to Believer, and Back
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.…
Slowing Down
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…
Code as an Asset and Liability
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…
AI Will Take My Job
The robots are coming for my job, and I want them to take it…
AI Coding is Barely Good
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…