Play‑First Programming: A More Human Way to Learn Code in the Age of AI

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<p>For most of my career, I followed the same instinct as every developer.</p> <p>Open the editor.<br /> Start writing code.<br /> Figure things out along the way.</p> <p>It felt

<h2> From "Prove It in Code" to "Prove It in Judgment" </h2> <p>For decades, credibility in software came from what you built with your own hands. Writing robust systems required

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<p>In 1972, Edsger Dijkstra stood up to accept a Turing Award and gave a lecture called "The Humble Programmer." He had never seen an LLM. He had never watched an agent rewrite a

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