I didn’t sign up to be a project manager. I got into programming because I loved the exploration, making mistakes, finding solutions and moving slowly bit by bit. One day I needed system tool then I wrote some C, the other time I needed some glue code, so I got comfortable with Perl or Bash. Needed to created website? Well… PHP was the languge for it - basically whatever was up to the job. I never learned any of these to the level of a professional, was never interested.

I’ve enjoyed solving puzzles, one at the time, it was creative freeform craft. It was messy, it was dounting. It was fun, sooo much fun!

Now I spend my days writing prose about code instead.

Kent Beck calls AI code agents the genie in the bottle: you get what you wish for, not what you want. He’s right, but in ways I did not expected.