What Is Programming Anymore?
The week the AI discourse turned dark: a possible coming attack on open source, Primeagen on protecting your energy, and whether letting agents make all the decisions causes skill regression. Plus legacy migration as the consulting angle AI de-risks, and why Nina built apps for years without ever sharing one.
Episode three. Jet lag, AI backlash week, and a quote Matt swears he never said.
What we talked about:
- 0:18 Catching up: Matt back from the States, Nina spinning plates.
- 0:41 The week the mainstream AI discourse went negative, and why it reads like a coming attack on open source.
- 1:16 Primeagen’s reaction to “Protecting Your Energy”: how much AI coding takes away from the process.
- 8:35 Migrating the legacy dinosaurs: why AI makes the rewrite pitch less risky, and how banks only just got mobile apps to work.
- 20:01 Skill regression. If something else makes all the decisions long enough, what is programming anymore?
- 31:49 Nina’s confession: years of finished apps, none ever shared. This is the year she fishes.
- 32:33 “I’ve never been one of those greybeards,” a quote Matt does not remember saying.
- 49:22 Closing remark: planning is everything, or you just meander.