And part of me is like...
But the other part of me (two wolves!) is interested in the skill gap that's still very much present in an area where the Thing Itself can help level you up to be able to figure out how to do things. AI can, in some ways, be the most self-promotional technology ever, if we can just get past (some of) humanity's hesitation to action.
Well, it happened. My teenage son said, “By the time I need English, I won’t need English.” Ironically, that’s a pretty clever use of English. He explained that with tools like Grammarly and ChatGPT, he doesn’t see much value in putting extra effort into English class. Other
"My first games involved hand assembling machine code and turning graph paper characters into hex digits. Software progress has made that work as irrelevant as chariot wheel maintenance." John's talking about tooling (computers are probably the ultimate tools to make tools,) but let's not
"Reflexive AI usage is now a baseline expectation at Shopify" Pasting the whole thing below, because while Ghost's ability to embed social media posts is super easy to get into, long posts don't render directly and who knows how long that tech will last.
Justin Searls wrote a great piece on how to reduce the risks of writing dangerous code. It’s succinct, focused on a specific problem, and broadly applicable. His technique relies on assertions, a programming tool that forces failures early when assumptions turn out to be wrong. Assertions don’t just