I’ve been taking a break from gainful employment, and filling the craving for tasks by doing Boot.dev courses. My bio on the site currently reads: Rusty CS masters grad from Canada, minor in psych to help understand HCI. Taking boot camp to cure 5 years confinement to OPS, and prolonged exposure to business 4GL and wishful approaches to AI. I’ll unpack the snark in other posts. Today I thought I’d say a quick thanks to Boot....
(From my hand-written notes.) Do I choose to use AI today? Efficiency for me but not for thee or society – Unknown Broligarch I find this decision to be more urgent and more difficult every day. On the one hand, not choosing to employ AI in solving a particular problem decreases the range of candidate solutions I can practically explore as a solo programmer. On the other hand, the opportunity to effortfully stretch my own organic neural net and thereby expand its future utility should not be squandered....