Miscellanea for 2026-03-13

  • Hello world!
  • Occasionally I remember I can do these random daily posts.
  • Look: here's one now!
  • I think Anil Dash's "What do coders do after AI?" hits on the same thing I was getting at a couple days ago with "Grief and the AI split":
    • Your job changes into describing software. Now, if you're the kind of person who only ever wanted to have the end result, maybe this is a liberation. Sometimes, that's what mattered — we wanted to fast-forward to the end result, elegance be damned. But if you were one of those crafters? The people who wrote idiomatic code that made that programming language sing? There's a real grief here. It's not as serious as when we know a human language is dying out, but it's not entirely dissimilar, either.

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