Christian Ekrem: Coding as Craft: Going Back to the Old Gym:

But the core of programming – the thinking, the designing, the architectural decisions – these are the parts I want to preserve as my craft. These are the muscles I want to keep strong by training in the old gym.

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Just as a chef might use a food processor for tedious prep work but would never dream of automating the creative aspects of recipe development and flavor balancing, we should use AI for what it’s good at while preserving the parts of coding that bring us joy and growth.

I love using AI tools to help me figure out things or to brainstorm, but it's the little highs I get when I solve a good problem that I don't ever want to go away.