Not using AI is fun too

this picture was also not made with AI

Today I wanted to finish off the menu system for my tiny navigating program for the PICO. I could have spent some time writing a prompt for Claude AI to use to create the code. But today I thought I’d spend around the same amount of time actually writing the code. It was awesome.

I didn’t have to spend any time figuring out what the code did since I already kind of knew. And bug fixes stuck because nothing else in the code changed when a fix was applied.

And I really felt that I owned what I had built, which was nice too. AI is great and can do amazing things, but I’m trying hard not to forget how to do it myself.