confessions

Had lunch with a teen & his dad b/c kid wanted some advice on choosing between Computer Science and Software Engineering. Eventually he told me he wanted to be a game dev. Every teen I talk with before they head off to Uni says the same. None of them make it. He’s ngmi, either.

Also I ask every kid who wants to do CS, whether game dev or other: what have you made? The answer is *always*: nothing. I cannot relate. They’ve had computers in the house since they were born & never once thought of, say, making an add-on for their fav game? Anything, really? I’m old but these kids are strange.

Software engineer, creative coder, aspiring generative artist, fridgebuzz.tez/.eth

I was busy writing games, hacking games, pirating them 😆 At 15 I'd written image compression utilities in assembly. My teenage kids hate anything to do with code, no matter how much I explain that software runs the world 😭

generative artist /
daydreamer /
plotter degenerate /
trapped in the 80s


Maybe the science fiction trope of AIs taking over from humans and running the world isn’t so absurd. If code runs the world and AIs write all the code… Until now I thought the idea of AIs taking programmers jobs was absurd, but I’m really not so certain anymore.

Same, my dev role will be obsolete in 5 years I feel. But behind the AI there'll be the data scientist, machine learning specialist, linguist, ai ethicist, cognitive researcher, and a bunch of other jobs us normals wont be able to grasp