Think Harder

Bastian Allgeier talked about "brain lock-in" on his podcast interview with Working Draft and it stuck a bit with me. It came out from the discussions about "vendor lock-ins" when building software (Kirby CMS in this case) and the need to be cautious about building in dependencies, but Bastian interestingly extended the dependency idea to also cover oneself. Why did this podcast episode speak to me? I guess because I've been feeling a bit on those exact feelings the last few months. On my last few projects I've been trying to adapt to the "new game" of getting better at prompting and letting go of the hands-on-coding as I felt I was getting outpaced and outworked by "the machines" on what I used to do manually for a living (Is that called rawdog-coding nowadays?). Brain atrophy is a real thing though, and my natural coding abilities (or at least my belief in them) seem to have a downward spiral as my productivity with AI goes upwards (or at least the feeling thereof). Bastian…