There are many things I love in this life. God. Family. The Great Outdoors. Writing code. Reading good books. Writing on Substack. Friends. Pizza. Fishing. Ah well, you get the point. What a time to be alive, the world in tatters, AI upending everything we have taken for gospel for the last … well forever. Because I’m an old curmudgeon, I learned to write Perl as my introduction to code, used to run LAMP stacks on macs underneath my desk and watching everyone to try hack it. That being said, while everyone else is ringing their hands in the error and retching like Gollum at how AI has stolen our precious, our code; I just ignore it all, and do both, use AI for coding when required or expected, and still writing Rust by hand when I get chance for fun.