writing code and writing about that

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  Overheard at an SD tech meetup "What does Qualcomm even do?" "Mainly train employees for better paying companies" CC

  @overheardSD

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  2026 me time traveling to visit past selves: I'm having to spit work between two AI because they have different guardrails when working with bittorrents 25 year old me: haha that's a good premise for a scifi story 15 year old me: Fuck yeah! I grow up cyberpunk!!

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  Basically every programmer went on a project bender as soon as we could start using coding agents. The sheer number of projects that I knew I would never get around to, or served only the purpose of curiosity that I now have sitting on my hard drive is staggering

  

  Replying to @benmaritz

  sometimes i think about the projects i spent literally years of my life on that could be done in a month or two now, probably to a higher standard as well

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  As a programmer if you starting working in *domain* and you read 1 book about it, you become the *domain* expert by default unless it’s video games, cybersecurity or space

  

  Relate so hard to this. A lot of moments where I realized my attempts to keep up actually shot me way far ahead. Do the reading.

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  My 11 year old is reading the Iliad at the wine bar. And I’m torn between being proud of what he’s reading and not wanting him to grow up to be the type of *adult* who reads the Iliad at the wine bar