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title: "Miscellanea for 2026-03-13"
date: 2026-03-13T23:59:00-07:00
url: https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/13/miscellanea/
author: Les Orchard
tags: [miscellanea]
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# Miscellanea for 2026-03-13

- Hello world!
- Occasionally I remember I can do these random daily posts.
- Look: here's one now!
- I think Anil Dash's "[What do coders do after AI?](https://www.anildash.com/2026/03/13/coders-after-ai/)" hits on the same thing I was getting at a couple days ago with "[Grief and the AI split](https://blog.lmorchard.com/2026/03/11/grief-and-the-ai-split/)":
	- > Your job changes into _describing software_. Now, if you're the kind of person who only ever wanted to have the end result, maybe this is a liberation. Sometimes, that's what mattered — we wanted to fast-forward to the end result, elegance be damned. But if you were one of those crafters? The people who wrote idiomatic code that made that programming language sing? There's a real grief here. It's not as serious as when we know a human language is dying out, but it's not entirely dissimilar, either.