Month: 2026/03
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2026 March 13
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- 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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2026 Weeks 9, 10, & 11
Three weeks of weeknotes in one go. Wrote a blog post about AI grief that hit Hacker News (and got accused of being written by an LLM), fell deep into an Amiga 1200 rabbit hole, soldered the wrong potentiometer onto my Tempest PCB, survived a work trip to California, and spiraled into hardware-ownership doomsday thinking. [ ... 1897 words ... ]
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2026 March 11
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Grief and the AI Split
AI-assisted coding is revealing a split among developers that was always there but invisible when we all worked the same way. I've felt the grief too—but mine resolved differently than I expected, and I think that says something about what kind of developer I've been all along. [ ... 1376 words ... ]