Have you coded naked?
I did today when I turned off CoPilot and went back to just me and the machine.
No more the overly helpful, slightly distrustful concubine.
It felt sinful, turning my back on easy pleasures.
Somehow wasteful, deliberately choosing bare intellisense.
Was this the first step to becoming unemployable?
It doesnโt really matter.
Coding keeps me emotionally regulated and my mind ticking over.
Iโm practicing pattern matching and problem solving at a much grander scale.
Like regular puzzle practice.
Sadness for the generation of coders who will only know mistress AI.