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I made malai kofta.

Huh. The act of typing this made me realize just how tired I am of all of it.

It's so similar to crypto/web3 when for a year or two everyone kept telling me that I was just dumb or lacked vision or just didn't understand shit and when it all crashed as I had predicted, hurting the people I predicted in the way I predicted everyone just moved on to "AI". The same motherfuckers doing the same shit.

Burns you out.

@starchy

Reluctantly crouched at the command line
Desperately typing to keep it online
A green light flashes, the systems come up
Churning and burning for the latest markup
Deftly inserting some Python or C
While guzzling down a coffee or three
Reckless and wild, he pours through the code
His prowess is potent, an effortless flow
As he speeds through the lines, the servers go down
As 404 errors are suddenly found
The department is empty except for one man
Still loading and coding as fast as he can
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
His coffee gone cold long ago in his cup
But he's typing and striving, debugging the terms
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns

He's going the distance
He's coding in C
He's all alone (all alone)
All alone in his time of need
Because he's typing and writing and viewing the source
Programming and scanning and switching the ports
He's going the distance.

No trophy, no flowers, no flashbulbs, no wine
He's haunted by variables he cannot define
Undeclared functions of doubt and remorse
Compile him, defile him with processing force
In his mind, he's still twelve, just hacking his grade
And he's hoping in time that those memories will fade
'Cause he's racing and pacing and switching the ports
He's typing and writing and viewing the source
The sun has gone down and the moon has come up
And his coffee's gone cold long ago in his cup
But he's typing and striving, debugging the terms
And thinking of someone for whom he still burns

He's going the distance
He's coding in C
He's all alone (all alone)
All alone in his time of need

Cause he's racing and pacing the processing ports
He's typing and writing and viewing the source
Cause he's racing and pacing and switching the ports
He's loading and coding and viewing the source

He's going the distance
He's coding in C
He's going the distance...

This part resonates a lot with me: “As I see more and more people generating code instead of writing it, I find myself wondering why engineers are so ready and willing to do away with one of the good bits of our jobs (coding) and leave themselves with the boring bit (reviews).” Yes, yes yes, I fully agree with @sophie. I feel like it’s the same for design: why do we offload the fun, creative part of thinking about different UI solutions to AI? We are not anti-progress, we are anti-hype.
Short musings on "cognitive debt" - I'm seeing this in my own work, where excessive unreviewed AI-generated code leads me to lose a firm mental model of what I've built, which then makes it harder to confidently make future decisions https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/cognitive-debt/
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt

This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best explanation of the term cognitive debt I've seen so far. Cognitive debt, a term gaining traction recently, instead communicates the notion that …

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Indian real estate companies have hilarious names for their projects.

I am no professional coder.

1. Person at work asked me to write code for his team
2. I did, then he said he doesn't need it - he got it done via AI
3. Next day, he says the code won't work on Windows - no AppleScript
4. He asks for my code again
5. Skips 2 meetings to discuss
6. A while back, he mails me a 3000 line code, asks me to get it working
7. I ask him if he wrote it - he says no, but he wrote the prompt and tweaked the prompts
8. I tell him he will need to tweak it some more

#aislop