Control the ideas, not the code

Look at the past history of this blog. There are many blog posts about programming with AI, a few of them date back to January 2024 (like this: https://antirez.com/news/140). I’m a relatively well regarded programmer, after all. I don’t have the need to still be in the “loop” as a old man that seeks for relevance, I recently rejoined Redis, and now I also am developing a new open source software for local LLM inference that received a good welcome in the community. Why I keep doing this, of saying what people don’t want to hear? Why I keep announcing how future programming will be by default? Because I feel the urge of lowering the impact for people less prepared to the change than me, often younger than me, and that, unlikely me, didn’t see many of those things coming (In 2022 I published, before ChatGPT existed, a book preannouncing many things that now happened and other things that I believe *will* happen, so I feel like I can say this without sounding egocentric). So mine is a…