Entering the Age of AI: A Laggard's Tale

I know I’m late to the game. It’s hard to teach an old dog new tricks. I’m the type of person who gets dragged into the future when it comes to the tools I use every day. I don’t like wasting time fiddling with things. When people share their setups or talk about their VIM shortcuts, I can barely focus long enough to hear them finish the sentence. When they show off typing 300 WPM, all I can think about is the time and effort it took to get there when development has never really been about typing. A MacBook, a simple text editor, and a couch have always been enough for me. Speed TypeScript didn’t sit well with me at first either. I had years of experience with C# and Java — the last thing I wanted was to worry about types again. JavaScript was my escape from that world. It’s what made me fall in love with it in the first place. CoffeeScript took that even further. I had never churned out code so fast. I refactored entire codebases overnight because of the speed at which I could move.