Art

I got to spend 30, 40 years writing code, mostly video games, and I'm just really grateful for that experience. What a dream. I loved every little piece of it. The bugs you'd fight with for days. Going to bed thinking about code and waking up with the answer (sometimes). That feeling when something you crafted and agonized over finally just works. And doing it next to artists, testers, audio/musicians, animators, producers, designers and programmers, shaping these experiences together. Now, in less than a couple of years, it's mostly AI writing the code, and it's bittersweet. Looking back, that was a golden era, kind of a golden opportunity in the whole history of humankind, to program these things by hand. I don't think it comes back. But I also think the next 30 or 40 years are going to be incredible for how these things get created and shaped. So, grateful for the opportunity. A little sad. Very excited.