CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@aurynn @cwebber this and also engaging with the craft of making computers do things without having to deal with code all that much. I have drawn out my software since I can remember and didn’t realize that the coding part never really was what I enjoyed.

It’s liberating and I can finally really engage with the topics that I always pursued (language design, ui design, operating systems, distributed systems, embedded) without having to remember if it’s list.sort() or sort(list). Hearing over and over that I’m rotting cognitively is a bit dismaying when I am finally unshackled.

Being able to go back to all the creativity and inspired work of the 70-80ies when people didn’t settle on what we are still using now and be “let’s try that” imo is truly embracing the craft and history of computing.

@eurodivergent @tante this is exactly why I stand by #llms democratizing access to software engineering. I know so many people know, from artists to blue collar to family business hustlers to genomics researcher who are now building full fledged software solving problems for them. I assist minimally. They are truly empowered and so much of the alienating side of tech is gone, from replacing photoshop to using local only html gizmos to just knowing that you can get a relay board connected to your music software without spending the whole weekend on arduino frustrations. It cuts off ties to big tech and gets us back to whimsical personal software.

I can’t speak to other domains, but this one is truly real.