cainrod

@cainrod.bsky.social

Gamer, gunter, and all around geek. Software Engineer. Hobbyist Game Developer. He/Him. Profile and banner by @julesdrawz.bsky.social

Take a break from being depressed that everything you love is being destroyed by slop for a moment and let me tell you about the beautiful symbiotic relationship between graffiti writers, train yard workers, and model train enthusiasts.

A hand holding a model train with a replica of the same graffiti on the full scale train car behind it.A model train with two graffiti pieces on opposite sides.

I wrote an essay about why I'm done using AI for coding, even if it costs me my job and career: brettcodes.com/im-done-usin... The basic gist is: AI made me a worse, apathetic programmer. I think it's bad for humanity, the planet, and the craft of software engineering. And I'm done using it.

I'm done using AI

Why I'm stopping using AI for coding (and anything else) after using it earnestly for a year and coming to understand the harms it causes on personal, societal, and environmental levels.

brettcodes.com

⚔️🔥CAPTURE QUEST: CHARIZARD🔥⚔️ I have wanted to paint this for over a decade and spent the last year of my life fighting to bring it to the finish line. Please take a look, there is a lot to see

Gargantuan illustration of a charizard redesigned in the style of a monster hunter elder dragon. There are 4 hunters attacking him and their pikapalico is readying a voltorb bomb to throw. There is so much stuff in there, I spent a damn year on this. I'm exhausted.

Got one out of 6 mech designs to do for my latest commission batch. For now they shall remain a ~secret~ until its all done. You can see one of my older green/teal themed batches.

A good mental tool I’ve been using lately to stop scrolling on Bsky, Reddit, IG, etc is asking myself “am I falling prey to somebody’s trap right now?” And it’s been pretty good about snapping me out of it. (Even though this post definitely counts)