I had a chat with an old friend last night about a bevy of CS things and we came to why I haven’t programmed much the past decade or so. It’s not that I can’t. I had to for one of my Ph.D. courses. It’s just that I find it too low bandwidth. It’s a general problem I have. I find many things too low bandwidth. That includes pursuing a Ph.D. wherein they want you to know all kinds of minutae while I would prefer to just ask someone else to do that work for me. Why do I need to know about probability? I’ll just hire someone to do that for me. It’s obviously my entrpreneurial streak, but really, why would anyone want to know everything? Seems like a pointless effort/exercise. And thus my take on programming, and my missive from yesterday. Most programming languages are way too verbose. And being someone who likes high bandwidth tasks it’s been easier for me the past 20 years to get someone else to code while I just orchestrate what needs doing. Over time I’ve simply left coding behind as its too low bandwidth requiring too much time for what I perceive
