The Hidden Cost of AI Coding – Terrible Software
https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/04/23/the-hidden-cost-of-ai-coding/
Perhaps what we need is a new understanding of where happiness can exist in this AI-augmented world. Maybe the joy doesn’t have to disappear completely — it just shifts. Instead of finding delight in writing the perfect algorithm, perhaps we’ll discover satisfaction in the higher-level thinking about system design, in the creative process of describing exactly what we want to build, or in the human aspects of software development that AI can’t touch.
Overcoming Bias: Joy in the Merely Real
http://www.overcomingbias.com/2008/03/joy-in-the-real.html
"You might say that scientists - at least some scientists - are those folk who are in principle capable of enjoying life in the real universe."