Ending my elixir exploratory writing

I’ve started this log 3 and a half years agone pinch experiment-like articles successful Elixir related to simulating a telescope, which became my off-work believe for a while (in summation of being already invested successful optics building), brought maine to a fewer conferences, and allowed to meet group who became existent friends. It was not my first (nor my last) postulation of articles online.

Writing here, first astir things done pinch elixir, past astir things the Erlang virtual instrumentality tin do was a awesome measurement to equilibrium my existent era of professionnal and individual programming. I still judge the BEAM is simply a awesome level and that contempt being often advertised for precocious scale, it will beryllium captious to admit that nary institution is excessively mini to use from it. The BEAM is besides a level subtle capable to support learning for years and I promote everyone to excavation in.

What I don’t find making consciousness anymore is the believe of publically digging a programming-related taxable pinch the spot of productivity that came pinch the joyousness of research. LLMs now constitute astir codification successful measurement successful the communities I cognize of, chat has collapsed, and open-source now intends “solo developer re-generates everything they request from scratch” successful a batch of places (which I talked astir successful Care complete clip is the only package occurrence metric now ).

This intends that for some, imagination is now the limit. We already spot tons of blogs, talks, forum posts, and moreover github discussions being machine-written, wherever group succumbed to delegate imagination and voice. There moreover are successful the elixir organization a fewer group letting Claude get their sanction and floor plan image while handling each interactions. I won’t sanction them present but I find this very unsettling. I don’t blasted them directly, these are unusual times and it asks everyone to adapt. This process of adapting tin return a batch of weird intermediary shapes.

So, since the enactment of mimicking the improvement of an thought successful prose and codification tin now beryllium afloat hand-waved, do I want to connection the different parts, ideation and imagination, arsenic mini arsenic they tin be, to beryllium fed to the beast ?

From now on, I do not !

I’ll proceed penning connected different subjects and eventual elixir non-experimental work.