I’ve been coding for 20 years commercially now, and I’ve come to define good coders - and indeed intelligence itself as … adaptability. Not fluid intelligence,

I’ve been coding for 20 years commercially now, and I’ve come to define good coders - and indeed intelligence itself as … adaptability. Not fluid intelligence, not creative velocity, not creative originality, not oodles of domain knowledge … adaptability. A new tool comes along? Adapt. A new idea breaks a long established paradigm? Adapt. A new skill is required? Adapt. As I get older adapting gets easier, because I treat ideas like objects - useful until they are not. No part of me cannot change, and my certainty in myself comes not from a bank of sanctified ideals I worship but in the knowledge that whatever comes, I will adapt and thrive. Fat client, thin client, centralised, edge, micro services, monolithic, ideas, tech, frameworks, everything is fluid and that’s what keeps things fun. Same goes with the arrival of GPT, I embraced it, learnt it’s strengths and weaknesses and now I estimate I’m maybe 2x more productive because of it, that means more time of fun things that interest me. Adapt, adapt, adapt