Learning to Vibe-Code Pt 2 (Connect 4)
After Tic Tac Toe, I asked around for the next game to vibe-code, and Connect 4 came up almost unanimously. I tried to recall the last time I played Connect 4, and it was at McDonalds with my 3-year old son. A mini Connect 4 was the free toy of the week that came with […]
Learning to Vibe-Code Pt 1 (Tic Tac Toe)
What do you do when you have to learn something when you don’t feel like it. You pick something fun to learn it with. Computer games has always been the draw for me, and that light at the end of the monitor screen has led me down the software engineering path many years ago. I […]
The Taxi I Refused to Take
When you’re in a hurry, nobody insists on walking. Nobody waits for the bus. You take the taxi, because getting there matters more than how you got there. I knew that. I still didn’t take the taxi. The deadline that ate everything The project had a ridiculous timeline to begin with, and then life did […]
A Skeptic’s Follow-Up: Was I Wrong, or Just Proud?
In an earlier post I mapped my AI journey onto the five stages of grief, and the first one was denial. I said AI writing production-level code was overhyped, autocomplete pretending to be a developer. I want to come back to that claim now and be honest about how much of it was actual analysis, […]
The Despair Over the Earthly: What AI Reveals About Intelligence
Somewhere along the way, “intelligence” stopped being a quiet human trait and became a competition. We built ladders out of it — IQ scores, gifted programs, SAT numbers, elite acceptance letters, the “smartest person in the room” as a kind of secular sainthood. Entire industries exist to measure it, rank it, credential it, and sell […]
AI Induced the Five Stages of Grief in me
I once met a TV repair man in the 90s sitting idly in his shop. He wasn’t going out of business dramatically — just quietly winding down, the way trades do when the world stops needing them at the pace it used to. He didn’t seem angry about it. Just tired in a way that […]
The Day My Graphic Designer Out-Coded Me
I’ve been a programmer for a long time. Long enough that “I know how to build things” quietly became part of how I answered the question who am I, even though I never said it out loud like that. Then my graphic designer — a genuinely talented visual person, not a developer, never claimed to […]
AI Walked Into My Café. I’m Not Ready.
Not because I don’t have thoughts about AI — I have too many, and most of them contradict each other before I finish my first cup. I’ve been putting it off because everyone is writing about AI right now, and the last thing the internet needs is another guy with a blog explaining what a […]