I like zig quite a bit, recently I participated to sycl, did a presentation on sarus-slurm at work in which I created a PoC with Zig, and finally I finished putting together my thoughts on Zig which I started quite some time ago.

I went to the Software You can Love conference, not for work but because I wanted to. I enjoyed it quite a bit, its subtitle is “celebrate the art of creating software for humans” and I think it fits. The idea behing it is expressed quite well in The Idealism and Practicality of Software You Can Love - Loris Cro - Software You Can Love 2022. I didn’t only receive a nice programmable badge, but I got to hear several very interesting talks.

There are some posts that see AI as the thing that will replace everything: programmers, writers, artists, workers, … people in general. I do not think that to be the case. I see the advent of modern machine learning similar to the advent of GUIs. GUIs had mainly two effects: it enabled new things: Desktop publishing, photo editing, consumption and creation of movies, spreadsheets, it increased the number of people that were able to use the computer to perform those tasks exponentially it changed the way professionals worked, but did not eliminate them I think AI will be similar: it will enable new applications it will open up the field to new players and increase the levels of beginners.