Oh, the shame

I lived in this echo chamber where it was taken for granted that
anything AI related was seen as negative.

Then I started to see interesting toots from Simon Willison[0], where
he talks about his usage and application of various LLMs.

Then I started to follow him and then stumbled up the book,
'Co-intelligence' by Ethan Mollick[1]. Where he talks about his
approach to using LLMs, that is neither pro or 'dooms day'-y.

After that I started to look at how they are being used for
programming. At first with the commercial IDEs and then that got me
excited to start to take a look "behind the curtain". I sniffed the
HTTP traffic and figured out how a certain IDE that operates in this
space works behind the scenes. Which was my gateway drug into figuring
out how all this can be implemented for Emacs.

So far I've had lots of fun tinkering with various options and modes,
writing my own customisations, than I thought was in store for me.

The deeper I dug, the less shame I felt, about exploring this space.
And in the process, my enthusiasm for programming got an unexpected
boost.

0. https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon
1. https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/460207/co-intelligence-by-mollick-ethan/9780753560778