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09.21 – 09.27

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Life

We had a firebreak week at work in which I decided to go for an AI detox and refreshed my memory on web components. I actually think I learnt quite a lot and was having fun writing code and figuring stuff out. Then the futility of the whole operation hit home and the crushing reality of Claude life hit home.

Anyway, software development (and frontend in particular) feels like it’s on life. support, and I’m starting to worry increasingly about my (total lack of) exit strategy. And even if I could continue to write code that outperformed the robots (which I can’t), how long are human eyeballs going to visit actual websites for, or are we all going to be outsourcing all our browsing to the robots anyhow? Σσ assures me she still goes to websites so I’ll make websites for her. So far on my list of stuff I could do I’ve got, painting/decorating, bar work, and session drummer, although I’m not remotely good enough at any of those really. I did consider an electrician/plumber apprenticeship but wasn’t sure it would pay the mortgage (but maybe I’ll revisit it – everything is leaking in the flat so perhaps the universe is telling me something). Most likely I’ll cling on to software dev for as long as I can. Maybe there’s still time for someone to poison the AI well and my niche web components knowledge will be gold dust.

I set up the amp, turntable, and big speakers upstairs. These haven’t really seen the light of day since the kids arrived and I’m blown away by how good it sounds.

Baked a focaccia in the new oven. Don’t mind admitting that it was pretty great.

Running

Three decent runs for the first time in ages.