Coding with AI

preface

I’ve been blessed to make a living doing something I’d do as a hobby. For decades, coding has been my passion. When I started programming, learning was tough—hardcopy books, dogpile.com, and newsgroups were our lifelines. You had to really want it.

My journey began with Perl, watching HTML come to life for the first time. Although tedious and frustrating, the results had me hooked. PHP changed everything, letting me build applications in days rather than months. The real high came from watching users’ eyes light up when their clunky spreadsheet workflow transformed into a sleek HTML form overnight.

Back then, documentation was scarce, and Google was in its infancy. Without old head programmers helping us, we may never have finished ...