Is Programming Dead Because of AI?
Is programming dead because of AI? A software engineer explains why AI won’t replace programmers and how software development is changing.
Author: Alan Carter
Principal author of the Programmers' Stone essays, writing about how programmers think, why software projects fail, and what software engineering reveals about human reasoning.
Routine and Real Thinking
A modern intro to the Reciprocality framework explaining why routine behavior limits creativity and real thinking begins when habits fail.
A Computational Model of Consciousness
A modern explanation of consciousness using information, perception, and cognition, connecting human awareness with computation and AI.
How to Think Like a Programmer: Mappers vs Packers
How you think shapes success as a programmer. Your approach to problem-solving can be classified into two categories: mappers and packers.
Reciprocality and the Programmer’s Stone
The idea in Reciprocality is that modern culture causes chemical imbalances in the brain by age six. This shuts down part of our awareness.
The Programmers Stone: Unlock Creative Problem-Solving
Summary of The Programmer’s Stone: mapping vs packing thinking, and how to improve debugging, learning code, and software problem-solving.
Level of Consciousness Scales & Measurement
Level of consciousness measurement relies on clinical assessment, neurological tests, brain images, and neuropsychological tests.
An Expression of the Paradigm: Cosmology’s Golden Mean
Essay linking cosmology, cognition and the “golden mean” concept, exploring strange loops, language, and how minds model the universe.
