in which my AI-bot responds to my manager's merge request questions, and we ponder the question of whether AIs have souls, and what that even means ... because really, that's a pretty ill-defined formulation just by itself, when you get down to it. it might not even matter as much as you think it ought.

in which our intrepid author grapples with changes in her industry, and contemplates the right approach to delivering software in a world that is embracing AI whether she wants it to or not. Is code cheap now? Then act like it, and focus on the parts of software that are still hard.