Clint thanks heaps for this. Really good to see a lot of old school CS/Graph theory applied in a nice way.

On an unrelated note - I did notice you were also a lawyer - So umm how what is next for you re this? What should we gear up for :)

Dang this was my reaction too! I thought a large part of it was open source (i remember the old anaconda days). TIL I guess!

"I made an open-source jupyter alternative" should be read as "I made a jupyter alternative which is also open-source".

I am really flabbergasted. How are they thinking using React for a TUI is a flex? Having 5 sessions open - and all idea - is taking up 98% of CPU. Is this another case of - "When all you is hammer, everything looks like nails"?

Im confused. Are you asking how to make money or how to spend your time if money was not a concern?

Answering the second question - I can find 48hours worth of things to do in a 24 hour day and none of them would be about work or just lazying around (nothing wrong with it). Life has so much to offer!!! Yeah AI can produce things. But theres a reason id consume human generated art. And thankfully real deep mastery still takes effort and passion!!

I mean duh? At the very least wouldnt one just show upt to their job for the "non work related" activities? Or work becomes your "passive income"?

Did they? I can get a 70" "smart"-tv for a few hundred bucks with a crap load of bloatware. But I cannot get the same TV that is "dumb" at anywhere near that price point (I just want a bunch of HDMI ports that I can connect other devices into - including my laptop). Those cost a lot more from what I recall. And part of this was due to TVs being a great port-key to grab your viewing habits etc?

Oh man so many things. I wrote a bunch of cool things a few years ago (and recently too) but have been scared to publish - mainly because even though ive used them in production, I felt publishing means having high quality docs etc. So now the biggest vibe-coding use case is to bring everything I wrote in the past to be "publish-ready".

Here are a few things:

Notations - A carnatic music notation parser, editor and renderer for the web https://github.com/panyam/notations

Galore - A LR parsing playground and library (used by Notations DSL above) https://github.com/panyam/galore

A few protoc plugins (I am very much grpc proto first):

protoc-gen-go-wasmjs (https://github.com/panyam/protoc-gen-go-wasmjs) - A protoc plugin for creating wasm bindings out of your grpc services so you can have your "go based backend logic" on the browser:

protoc-gen-dal (https://github.com/panyam/protoc-gen-dal) - A converter between protoc messages and datastore messages so you avoid writing API <-> DB Models.

Weewar (https://github.com/turnforge/weewar) - A clone of a favorite game of my from the 2000s just for fun. Still in progress.

Plenty more but just dusting off old things has been my biggest thing lately and in the process building tooling to standardize my next gen of apps/sites etc.

There are different degrees of "ai wrote all my code". A very crappy way of doing it is to keep on one shotting it expecting it to "fall on the right solution" - very much infinite monkeys, infinite typewriters scenario.

The other way is to spend a fair bit of time building out a design and ask it to implement it while verifying what it is producing then and there instead of reviewing reams of slop later on. AI still produced 100% - just that it is not as glamorous or as marketing friendly of a sound bite. After all which product manager wants to understand refactoring or TDD or SOLID or design principles etc?

I really don't understand the fetishisizing of the demise of software engineers. Are other knowledge workers like doctors or lawyers going to be exterminated by AI? Or is there even a fantasizing of their demise? The only reason I can think of is shmchaudenfreud (it is relatively barrierless to get into and pays pretty well) and more importantly imo doesn't have cabals like other professions do.

Btw I love using my Claude code to crank out product but I don't get off looking for the day when engineers are a dead breed!

> I really don't understand the fetishisizing of the demise of software engineers.

I don't think it's "fetishisizing," it's fear. You have a bunch of comfortable software engineers suddenly realizing they may be in for the same fate as travel agents and blue-collar factory workers.

Doctors and lawyers are also going away, it’s just harder to see as they’re not exposed as much to this technology yet, it’ll be more of a “flip a switch” moment for them.

Doctors might fare better since there are laws and regulations that require them.

Frankly I really don't know what id don't not in tech. Closest I van think of is some kind of mathematician but don't even know what those "jobs" look like. Academia might be another. But these are all tech adjacent aren't they?