01-18-2026, 08:13 AM
For me (yep, a REAL old-imer) programing is not just about being able to produce a tool to achieve something quicker... it's more a way to challenge my own inventiveness and imagination, to keep the grey-matter at least relevant.
Games like chess, sudoku, or crossword-puzzles don't achieve anything materially, but they' ve persisted for years and probably will for many more, because some people like to "stay alive, stay alert". Sure, we could present our crossword to an AI app and it would solve it in a few nano-seconds, but then what? go and veg out for the rest of the day?
And there are myriad tasks that are better suited to being solved by human imagination than pre-set and pre-used rules.
That's my tuppence worth anyway!
Games like chess, sudoku, or crossword-puzzles don't achieve anything materially, but they' ve persisted for years and probably will for many more, because some people like to "stay alive, stay alert". Sure, we could present our crossword to an AI app and it would solve it in a few nano-seconds, but then what? go and veg out for the rest of the day?
And there are myriad tasks that are better suited to being solved by human imagination than pre-set and pre-used rules.
That's my tuppence worth anyway!
Of all the places on Earth, and all the planets in the Universe, I'd rather live here (Perth, Western Australia.) 
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