Years ago I wrote about my enthusiasm for automation of toil. The advent of coding agents is the first time I’ve faced automation of a task I enjoy. I enjoy developing software, and I enjoy coding.
For fun projects, the ‘return’ on the investment is ‘fun’—and sometimes the fun is in the coding, sometimes it’s in solving the problem, and sometimes it’s in solving the problem by coding.
I found programming fairly young. I was lucky to have a computer and a technologist father who encouraged my interest. I enjoyed coding: making something “go”. I also enjoyed solving problems. Initially these were problems like “how do I make it do what I want” or pursuing an interest in a language or tool.
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