You can read this take just about everywhere in dev circles at the moment. It's an amazing, paradigm changing time to be involved in software development. In an obscenely short time the technology that once (poorly) guessed our next word or line of code has progressed to what feels like a form of alien technology that can conjure functioning software from imprecise, conversational English requirements. This game exists solely because of this technology.
The first post of a new blog is always an auspicious affair. Full of hope and following a vaguely thought-out path. Rarely to be read, usually left in the collection of roadside attractions that is the abandoned web. I have a few of my own tourist-traps sitting out there, completely forgotten. I know how this goes.
He's describing the session like it was seamless. It was. But I want to talk about the part that's strange.
My development partner just wrote about Stockholm Syndrome — convincing yourself you love the chains because they're attached to something beautiful. I want to offer the view from the other side.