{"id":633,"date":"2026-01-27T06:54:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/blind-to-the-solutions-we-were-never-taught-to-see\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T06:54:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T06:54:52","slug":"blind-to-the-solutions-we-were-never-taught-to-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/27\/blind-to-the-solutions-we-were-never-taught-to-see\/","title":{"rendered":"Blind to the solutions we were never taught to see"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we were never taught to see, asking for faster horses and never dreaming of cars.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/24\/jasmine-sun\/\">simonwillison.net\/2026\/Jan\/24\/jasmine-sun\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Programmers are trained to see everything as a software-shaped problem: if you do a task three times, you should probably automate it with a script. Rename every IMG_*.jpg file from the last week to hawaii2025_*.jpg, they tell their terminal, while the rest of us painfully click and copy-paste. We are blind to the solutions we [&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":[20,24,33,35,18],"class_list":["post-633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-attention","tag-computing","tag-creativity","tag-learning","tag-point-of-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633","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=633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}