i think the <WORK PROJECT REDACTED> i made was so spaghetti it traumatized me into valuing systems that are comprehensible

I see discourse that AI will lower the barrier to entry for coding. I think the barrier to entry for coding should not be lowered because this will result in more poorly made software. Just look at the javascript ecosystem over the past decade.

copy pasting dependency files into your project instead of using a package manager feels kinda based

Computers were supposed to be the bicycle for the mind but instead we have become the bicycle for the computer.

Traditional visual environments visualize the code. They visualize static structure. But that's not what we need to understand. We need to understand what the code is doing.

Visualize data, not code. Dynamic behavior, not static structure.