This year I read 26 books, and looking back, a pattern emerged: I’m fascinated by systems – whether that’s the game mechanics of a dungeon crawler, the organizational charts of tech companies, or the neural wiring of my own brain.
Software developers are cynical about AI, specifically generative AI (GenAI) like ChatGPT, Claude, Grok, and Gemini. In talking to a variety of people outside of software the main response is basically, “what can AI do for me?” Within devs I see three broad categories: Skeptics who refuse to engage with AI Dabblers who have tested the waters Practitioners who treat AI as a turbocharger that can…