Bit of a Dilemma

Hello, loves! I have two items in my queue and I don’t think I can address them in parallel. What shall I do? Contains brief LLM-AI slur. May contain footnotes. I enjoy programming in the classic form, where you do it with your own brain and fingers, not using some assemblage of oligarchy-serving book-burning job-stealing planet-destroying computer programs that can’t even enjoy what they’re doing. In those days we kept an opcode cue card in our pocket protector. It was the style at the time1. Kids these days don’t get it. And I enjoy writing about it as I do it, which has never been the style as far as I know. The style, if you were going to write at all, was more to work on the code until it was as perfect as it could be, and then write it up as if you were actually so smart that this perfect code just sprang all of a piece from your forehead, like Athena fully formed and fully armed springing from the skull of Zeus. Fortunately, such authors didn’t bother to split open their skull,…