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It’s Not the Chisel

After 40 years of writing code by hand, I looked down on vibe coding. Then I tried it. This is a look at what people mean by “AI slop,” which complaints hold up, what AI means for developers who are still learning, and why slop was never about how the code got written. An LLM is a chisel: in the right hands it makes something worth keeping, and in mine, a lump. AI didn’t create slop. It just made it cheaper to produce.

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I asked Claude to describe my personality...

Robert asked Claude to describe their personality without flattery. Claude analyzed author's configuration files, code projects, and documented preferences to generate detailed personality assessment. Key finding: Claude effectively reverse-engineered personality traits from technical documentation and system design patterns, demonstrating how structured configuration files inadvertently reveal behavioral patterns and work preferences.

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Welcome to March

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.

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Merry Christmas

Wishing you and your family a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

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