‘Ask for what you want’ is a key skill for the 21st century – Robin Sloan

Author Robin Sloan published a pretty swell blog that articulates my experience with AI over the last year. "This is an update to my post about apps as home-cooked meals, which has found a large audience over the years. That post, published in February 2020, discussed personal software, designed and built in different ways, for different reasons, than industrial apps. What’s changed between 2020 and today? Oh, just the entire process and practice of computer programming. Here, right up front, I decree: building a personal app with the help of AI agents still totally counts as “home cooking”. You’re no longer grinding the flour by hand; fine. This is a cool development. You do still have to make the meal taste good, and this still requires care and effort. Fine... ...I got home, and I told it, and I cooked dinner, and by the time I went to bed, I had my new notes app, native macOS. I began using it immediately, and over the next couple of weeks I refined it, explaining my preferences…