Despite what many may think given my background, I’ve never been much of a coder.
I learned BASIC in 5th grade for all that’s worth. Since then it’s been a meandering path through C and C++, Perl, Scheme, Java, PHP, SQL, Python, JavaScript, and Rust—if you don’t count things like Bash. True to form, I dabbled in all of these when it was necessary to complete a project, but never really seized on any of them. It was just something I did at the time.
Last week I started working on a project, and this time I wanted to see what would happen if I did what all the “cool kids” are doing and “vibe coded” most of it. Let me just say it was an absolute disaster. I ended up with about 18k lines of iffy spaghetti code that only kind of does what I asked, is chock full of bugs, and isn’t anything I would ever willingly publish in my name. Just awful.
Boy have I not posted in a while. As excuses go, I actually have a pretty good one for once: I’ve been swamped in being ridiculously productive. The best part about it is that it’s been so fun I don’t even mind. And to think it all started when I finished a video game.