Noel Rappin Writes Here

Every time I think the AI frenzy has peaked, it peaks again. Writing about coding these days feels like Jimmy Stewart dancing on the edge of a floor that’s rapidly receding under him. I had a draft of this that started with five or six capsule stories of interactions with LLMs for coding purposes, some saving incremental time, some being wrong, some even being right. Then I realized that I probably shouldn’t be that detailed about work stuff, but more importantly, you likely have all these stories too.

So, this is wildly late. So late that it mocks the very concept of an end-of-year recap. And honestly, if I didn’t like going back to these things and re-reading them, I probably wouldn’t have finished it. Couple of quick notes before getting to it: The new thing this year is that I used The StoryGraph to rate all the books right after I finished them. You’d think that’d make it easier to get this list out, but apparently not.