After working a full day at a job that has nothign to do with the internet and programming and all that garbage and I came back and A/B'd the code I will say this.

I do think it was worth it.

I spent years reading books, following tutorials, and listening to lectures and none ever really explained the functional paradigm in a way that applied to my particular problem domain.

I think AI is geat for a lot of things, and it was a part of the journey, and being able to talk to an agent and back and forth at a higher level... let me say this, I got the best explination about what a monad was (i.e. a value in a context) vs. whatever else (I remember a burrito analogy at some point), but you need a good use case for the concept to click.

I do believe content management and CMS architecture is a great training ground for learning about programming in general.

Did humans generate code spaghetti slop before AI? Yes. Does AI generate a lot of slop? Yes. Do AI companies profit off of token usage, yes. Is that cost going to increase? Yes. Are those companies then incentivised to generate a lot of code that then requires the ai to read through all that code when making changes? I'd say yes.

It's on the user to understand how to modularize and isolate... whatever the other word is... to minimize that cost. Fair.

This process is by no means over, but I am attempting to formulate an approach to programming in the languages I use that I would teach myself I could go back in time 5 years, or 20 years...

Anyway, I'm saying it was worth it whether or not there is any pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Remember: "an entrepreneur is someone who jumps off a cliff and builds a plane on the way down"

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ha, i had this drafted ... I like this being a disjointed journal here hah.