No, not a typo, I’m getting tired of “AI”.
I’m wondering when are we gonna go back to discussing other cool things? Can we just try and move on for a bit? What’s the next cool feature or trend we might see in Rails 9 that will be copied over to other frameworks? Does that still happen these days? What comes after containers for pushing code to prod and local dev? Micro VMs? Is serverless still a thing?
I also miss when software felt a little more… stable? When people had enough time to develop opinions before the entire stack mutated again.
I mean, I love that we are living “unprecedented times” but shit is changing almost every day. It’s exciting to live in this age and see all the possibilities but it’s also tiring AF.
I love computers and have been working with them in some shape or form for almost 20yrs now. I wrote my first pascal program when I was 14. I love learning, but I’m not sure I can keep up at this pace forever.
I open Twitter X, AI. LinkedDisney, AI. GitHub feed, AI - I know I’m guilty of that too.
AI discourse has this permanent COVID-era breaking-news energy now. Every day there’s a new layer of vocabulary, ideology, workflow, or existential crisis:
LLM-wiki, second brain, agentic PKM, agent harness, prompt engineering, context engineering, context rot, context window anxiety, memory layer, knowledge graph, prompt injection, sycophancy, supply chain hallucination, AI slop, vibe coding, agentic coding, augmented coding, vibe debugging, vibe shipping, vibe ops, prompt-driven development, “English as the new programming language”, post-coding, computer use, browser use, agentic browser, ambient agent, always-on agent, agent swarm, agent orchestration, human-in-the-loop / human-on-the-loop / human-out-of-the-loop, AI employee, digital twin, killed by AI / replaced by AI / automated away, cognitive debt, cognitive surrender, comprehension debt, skills atrophy, tokenmaxing, digital hoarding, collector fallacy, AI fatigue…
ngmi(?!)
Anyways, I’m gonna go try and finish reading Calm Technology while the industry figures out whether agents prefer Markdown or HTML.