Yes, I *am* that ESR. Well, it's the question people usually ask.
Programmer, wandering philosopher, accidental anthropologist, troublemaker for liberty.
I was one of those nerds.
You've missed the way I'm adapting to AI, which is by moving *up* the stack rather than down. My job is design and specification now, not coding.
I was a hand-coder for nearly 50 years. I find I miss it surprisingly little. I guess I was a designer after all.