{"id":545,"date":"2025-12-30T09:28:59","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T09:28:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/a-quote-from-jason-gorman\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T16:11:57","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T16:11:57","slug":"a-quote-from-jason-gorman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/12\/30\/a-quote-from-jason-gorman\/","title":{"rendered":"The hard part: A quote from Jason Gorman"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The hard part of computer programming isn&#8217;t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking &#8212; with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions &#8212; into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.<\/p>\n<p>The hard part has always been \u2013 and likely will continue to be for many years to come \u2013 knowing exactly what to ask for.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2025\/Dec\/29\/jason-gorman\/\">simonwillison.net\/2025\/Dec\/29\/jason-gorman\/<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hard part of computer programming isn&#8217;t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking &#8212; with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions &#8212; into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,20,51,24,31,7,33,47,18,23],"class_list":["post-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-ai","tag-attention","tag-compexity","tag-computing","tag-concepts","tag-consciousness","tag-creativity","tag-language","tag-point-of-view","tag-reasoning"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":560,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions\/560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}