The computer cannot think for you, but it can help you think.
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A Strategic Guide to Mechanized Garden Warfare & Critter Counterintelligence
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M’Lady Wants a Garden, But the Enemy Has Cavalry
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“Learn to code” became a derisive meme for a time.
Journalists once proposed it as a solution for men concerned about the effects of globalization on their job prospects. Later, when a series of online propaganda mills went under, some of those men enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude by suggesting the now-unemployed journalists should simply “learn to code.”
As those journalists would soon discover, learning to code is not so simple.
Describing a program is much simpler than writing one from scratch.
It is not effortless. It is not magic. It is not without demands on the describer.
But it is a thing a person with needs, language, patience, and stubbornness can accomplish, provided he respects the limitations of the system.
https://thehandaiman.com/2026/06/25/programs-writing-programs-to-keep-wordpress-chaos-at-bay/
Journalists once proposed it as a solution for men concerned about the effects of globalization on their job prospects. Later, when a series of online propaganda mills went under, some of those men enjoyed a bit of schadenfreude by suggesting the now-unemployed journalists should simply “learn to code.”
As those journalists would soon discover, learning to code is not so simple.
Describing a program is much simpler than writing one from scratch.
It is not effortless. It is not magic. It is not without demands on the describer.
But it is a thing a person with needs, language, patience, and stubbornness can accomplish, provided he respects the limitations of the system.
https://thehandaiman.com/2026/06/25/programs-writing-programs-to-keep-wordpress-chaos-at-bay/
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Programs Writing Programs, to Keep WordPress Chaos at Bay
I asked ChatGPT if it was capable of creating a WordPress plugin. Rather than simply tell me whether or not this was possible, it answered by producing the plugin almost instantly.