I love this! The line “resist the urge to push the difficult bits off to a box of statistics” particularly resonated with me!

I’m 47 and have been working for over 20 years also and programming for many many more. I see AI used a lot in industry amongst my peers and friends. Personally though I don’t use it. I like the thinking and planning phase and I like the typing phase.

I’m a programmer for life. My hobbies revolve around programming and hardware as well (demos for retro hardware: XTs up to Pentium, Sega Master System, custom built hardware). I stay up late working on this stuff and I still have the drive to do it with two young kids who take up a lot of my time.

I have zero interest in an AI doing any of it for me. I don’t think I’ll be replaced by an AI but I might be forced to use one by an employer at which point I think I’ll retire and just work on my hobby projects!

I do this with my son when we go for a walk through our nearby reserve! I'm trying to teach him about nature and keeping our environment clean and how we live alongside nature and we should take care of it. He's pretty invested now which is great - when we forget to bring a bag he always mentions it, or if we're walking somewhere else like on the way to kinder he'll point out some rubbish and say we should have brought a bag with us.

I’m always pleasantly surprised when I’m reminded that he and his brother made SRE and BRE. I love hearing that folks from those days are still making great things.

There were some comments somewhere below about that virality being bought though. I don't know how true that is or where those commenters got their information. If you look at google trends though there is practically no mention of ClawdBot before around January 23, even though the project was released in November.