2026-06-26 13:56 UTC
This quote has been circulating recently, from a 1985 paper that was part of a conversation at the time about what a computer program *is*. Is it the source code? Or the final executable binary? Or the sum of its versions? Or the people who wrote it?
I've been programming for over 40 years, and I can tell you with great confidence that Naur was right. When I'm building software, first and foremost what I'm building is me.
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@a2_4am@mastodon.social 2026-06-26 13:59
...which is a roundabout way of saying that, obviously, I did not use any so-called "AI" products in this project, for the same reason you don't take a forklift to the gym to lift weights for you. The effort is the point.