Lost in the middle

TL;DR

Planning to shift and change this site and personal projects a bit now that AI has completely overhauled our craft.

The boost is gone

My brother who is not a developer was telling me the other day that he was completely unaware of the amazing sensation that is being able to do stuff with code. He had done a few simple programs when he was in university, but nothing even remotely similar to the feeling of having the power of code applied in everyday tasks and real world scenarios, which he now has with the help of AI.

I find it curious that as his brother I am on the other end of the spectrum. I'm a pro developer and AI has made my stronger skill become fragile, and bla bla bla you've read this a thousand times before by now, I'm no different, and my opinions and takes on AI fall on the median of what you can find out there. Nothing new under the sun I guess.

All that is lost is not lost forever

Now that I've been demoted to a vibeslop drone I find my mind running marathons, hunting, searching, trying to calculate some n-th order derivative where I can flex my previously useful skills again.

This is no easy quest, for we all breathe the same intoxicating miasma.

Projects become stale as the stifling fumes make us stroll around and explore things with different cost/benefit ratios and an inflated sense of achievement and productivity. Waving our skills goodbye.

Conclusion

None of my previous projects make much sense to me anymore. Neither does this blog in its current format of tech posts. Things have changed, I am not going to pivot, but definitely going to move things around a bit.

Posts become more personal with a likely increased publication frequency.

I find myself playing quite a bit with s-expressions, the "lego blocks of programming". Maybe newer things will come out of this, maybe this is the new building/logic layer I need to express myself, if only I can tweak it enough. Maybe I will just find another proof that I once again don't know what I am doing.

Truth is I'm just passing the time.