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I think it’s now been more than a year since I last wrote software just for fun (with or without AI). It feels more like chores or work by now. It feels like it had been a long time coming, but it just became clearer recently.

6/9/26, 1:31 pm0 reposts18 likes

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

@lizthegrey.com

6 Sept

advent of code is the only fun I have coding

Fred Hebert

@ferd.ca

6 Sept

Yeah I did them on and off for 3 non-consecutive years and I think last time I gave up due to one of these “you gotta know the magic theorem ahead of time or this is impossible” problems (that were fairly common in project Euler back then) which felt like a chore and then never came back.

Louis Pilfold

@lpil.uk

6 Sept

Have you found some other cool fun thing to spend your time on? :)

Fred Hebert

@ferd.ca

6 Sept

I’m gardening (though it was incredibly rainy and low touch this year) and doing a masters program on human factors and systems safety part time (which eats ~20h a week easy).

Louis Pilfold

@lpil.uk

6 Sept

Sounds lovely! Have fun!