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Introduction A couple of weeks ago, very much against my will, I got involved with a work event trying to assess whatever the road-map for adoption of Generative Artificial Intelligence (Gen AI) is.

A new data point from the workbench of technical work In 1887, Nietzsche noted (Late Notebooks 10[11]) how the current education system is a key enabler for the leveling of man: transforming kids into good office clerks, soldiers or factory workers.

At the beginning of the year I explored the willingness to code of coders.

Hell yeah!

Three workplace vignettes The new cloud vendor is worse because you have to code This week I ran into a junior colleague.

For the past two years, most of my work has been tied to these Platforms as a Software Substitute.

For the past two weekends I've been trying Guix out.

I've been working with these two juniors lately.

Introduction Some months ago, I begun my first ever technical leadership.

Earlier this week I was reviewing some Python code with a junior colleague, and thought: "Python can be pretty nice."

It's not like I was lisping, but my body had developed a severe parens deficiency.

Today I had the chance to try out Spark on Scala 3.