Yeah, I feel like I understand. AI has recently invaded the homebrew, retro computing and fantasy hardware spaces as well. This is a space that isn’t conducive to fame, glory or money and is really just filled with us old cats reliving the mystery and awe of 6502/6809 programming. Everyday lately, I see someone posting about how awesome their clone of <insert arcade game here> is. Posting some file written by some AI tool. It always follows with “I used <insert tool here> and I have quite a few bugs to work out but its working.”

To me, it feels like it devalues all of the work put in to learning these older skills and techniques. Makes me feel like I wasted a lot of time trying to learn and understand them. F’it. I’m ready to retire anyway. I need to play more golf or bocce or something outdoors anyway. It will be a while before AI invades that.

I mean if they wanted to get nerds out of tech then this is the way.

I think it’s a dangerous way, though.

Vibing on another post, about how Claude reignited a passion.

Do you code for the joy of handling a nullpointer exception, or to automate tedium?