{"id":28531,"date":"2026-06-29T16:39:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28531"},"modified":"2026-06-29T16:39:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T21:39:44","slug":"programming-without-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28531","title":{"rendered":"Programming without AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I still continue to write all of my computer graphics programs line by line. No vibe coding, no asking an AI to &#8220;insert an implementation of this here&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>I do understand that this puts me out of step with the times. Maybe I am holding on to an ideal that will no longer be seen to have meaning.<\/p>\n<p>But creating something on the computer from scratch, with my own manual labor, feels like a value in itself. I feel a bit like Ron Swanson crafting his own chair.<\/p>\n<p>In the long run this may not be seen as practical by society at large. But to me it brings an intangible value that is priceless.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I still continue to write all of my computer graphics programs line by line. No vibe coding, no asking an AI to &#8220;insert an implementation of this here&#8221;. I do understand that this puts me out of step with the times. Maybe I am holding on to an ideal that will no longer be seen &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/?p=28531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Programming without AI&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28532,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28531\/revisions\/28532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kenperlin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}