Old dog, new tricks

As an old school programmer, I thought I'd write down my journey into agentic AI and reflect on it. Why I love programming I've been programming for as long as I remember. My parents bought an Amstrad CPC 128k (yes, that's the RAM size) and I was immediatly hooked, at the age of 8. After getting bored of the computer games it came with I turned my attention to the manual. It, being in a foreign language didn't stop me either. Solving non-trivial problems is my passion and I've been using the computer to do that for a long time. I'd spend my entire workday programming, and then go home and work on side-projects. Books as a reference material Back when I was learning programming we had to rely on programming books to learn the syntax. There was no Stack Overflow, ChatGPT or even Google. Then as the web matured, I hardly ever look at programming books. The Internet has a more up-to-date reference than paper could ever keep up with. Era of AI auto-complete When these large-language-models…