Journal Entry For 2026-03-25

• What a sentence: "The entire AI bubble is built on a vague sense of inevitability — that if everybody just believes hard enough that none of this can ever, ever go wrong that at some point all of the very obvious problems will just go away." Ed Zitron
  • I come down on this like this: First and foremost, people gotta eat (and pay for their lower to middle class lives), that includes me, a soon to be Dad. So I will try to not lose my job and learn how to use these tools somewhat effectively as long as this is what is asked of me. When the free money era of this ends - which I think is a quite likely situation as "one cannot beat physics" (Zitron) - I am sure that I will probably do a lot more of this by hand again, soon. Which is fine by me.
• Terry Godier, the person behind the RSS app Current wrote recently (emphasis mine): "I differ from a lot of longtime engineers in that I don’t find the act of writing code to be sacred or really all that original. I’ve written code for 25 years and I don’t feel like I’ve owned any of it, or that I genuinely invented any of the approaches I’ve taken to solve whatever problem I was building against. The reason I had to write the code in the first place always felt more like a bug than a feature. Some of the things I’ve done felt nice - tricksy logic that accomplishes something that the machine didn’t want to, or the satisfaction of an elegant solution. But those things aren’t why the software exists in the first place. Where I do feel a sense of ownership and pride is the philosophy."
  • A hundred thousand percent agreed. To me that includes things like how I would ideally like to develop things. There is pride there. But writing code itself is more of a necessity for me. A means to an end. Sometimes then end is something really cool and original like Current. Sometimes the end is the journey (the end doesn't have to be the finished product is what I'm saying. Sometimes it is about the exploration or a particular concept or whatever)

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