Discussions about whether we should use Artifical Intelligence helpers for creative work remind me of musician's unions attempting to ban synthesizers and drum machines, back in the early eighties, as told by the articles linked at the end of this post.

Youngsters who might be interested in doing an apprenticeship with us were in the office this week, and I spent an afternoon teaching them the basics of programming.

I'm amazed at how many so-called "enterprise software systems" do not embrace the Web model in 2010, making them way much harder and much less fun to use than they should be. I have recently started making parallels between this and music teachers, and the analogy seems to work. Don't ask where the parallel comes from...weird connections in my brain I guess.

I don't like everything about punk music but I sure like the energy!