Programming

I read a post on the Haskell Discourse this week that I haven’t been able to stop thinking about. It’s called How to keep enjoying programming in a world of LLMs, written by a developer who goes by turion, and halfway through I had that slightly uncomfortable feeling of reading something I could have written. Or at least, something I’ve been circling for months without quite landing on. Go read it. It’s long, it’s thoughtful, and it’s (by the author’s own declaration) 100% human written. Which, these days, is worth mentioning. ...

I never posted why I paused development on So This Is How I Die. If you’ve been following the devlog, you’ll know the story up to a point. The slow progress, the balancing act with client work, the occasional “I’m having a hard time” entry that I posted because solo dev accountability sometimes means confessing that nothing is on fire, you’re just tired. What you won’t find is a post that says this is where I stopped, and here’s why. ...

Introduction So very many years back when I was but a fledgling coder, armed with BASIC skills and deep into a Turbo Pascal with Objects book, I remember a conversation with my dad. Frustrated by the level of specificity needed to communicate with a machine, I asked, “Why has no-one made a programming language where I can just tell it ‘build this game for me’?” My dad, in his infinite wisdom, mused that cracking that puzzle – creating a natural language programming language – was a feat yet to be achieved. “Whoever manages to do that,” he predicted, “will make a fortune.” ...

Ah, another “trend” I’ve seen online in the last year. I wonder which AI recommendation tool suggested this one to the thousands of small YT channels and influencers who needed a topic… Okay, saltiness aside, I actually found this one quite interesting. And not because I agree with most of the approaches I’ve seen people recommend (it is shocking how many just want to punt their own products or their sponsors), but mainly it was interesting because I was thinking that… ...