http://programmer.ie/categories/machine-coding/ Recent content in Machine Coding on Programmer.ie: Modern AI programming Hugo en-us Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/freestyle-cognition/13-chapter/ Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0100 http://programmer.ie/books/freestyle-cognition/13-chapter/ <blockquote> <p>&ldquo;First, solve the problem. Then, write the code.&rdquo;</p></blockquote> <h2 id="summary">Summary</h2> <p>Machine coding is no longer just asking an AI to write files for you.</p> <p>That was the early version. You described an app, the model produced a pile of code, you copied it into a folder, ran it, pasted the errors back, and hoped the loop converged.</p> <p>That workflow taught us something important: conversation can turn into software. But it also hid the real lesson.</p>