Making

# Summary A veteran programmer and CS instructor reflects on the personal fulfillment he derives from making things himself, expressing concern that relying on AI to build code at his request diminishes that satisfaction and the craft of programming. He acknowledges legitimate debates about AI development's trade-offs—losing hands-on problem-solving and coding enjoyment while gaining efficiency—but suggests there's a deeper philosophical issue at stake about the meaning of creation and authorship. The piece begins as a philosophical exploration prompted partly by his background in both computer science and his father's work in philosophy.