I have been driven to reading a lot more theory and philosophy of late.

Can't recommend my latest acquisition enough: "Computational Reflections" Cantwell Smith.

The current state of affairs is stressful and at times depressing, sure. But I am very, very excited for what comes next. The insanity downward spiral that had been consuming software engineering is accelerating and being accelerated by LLMs.

Lots of people are way too distracted by money they or others are making to see this time of change for what it is: a new dawn in computing is approaching, and the fact that chatbot coding is bringing down the system that begot them is quite fitting.

I feel like we live in the ancient history of the computer age. It's like seeing writing and temples and cities first getting started and in the geologically stunningly short time of 5 thousand years we went from yet another primate to orbiting Earth. The next 500 years will see even more drastic change!