{"id":36551,"date":"2026-08-28T08:27:40","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:27:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?p=36551"},"modified":"2026-08-28T08:52:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T15:52:26","slug":"ccatp-840","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/ccatp-840\/","title":{"rendered":"CCATP #840 \u2014 Adam Engst on From HyperCard to AI-Assisted Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another delightful conversation with Adam Engst, he fires up the WABAC machine and walks us through his journey of never successfully becoming a programmer. Two periods in time allowed him to unleash his creativity: HyperCard in the 1980s and today with AI-assisted programming.<\/p>\n<p>The basis for the conversation was his article on TidBITS titled <a href =\"https:\/\/tidbits.com\/2026\/08\/14\/decades-after-hypercard-ai-is-democratizing-development-again\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Decades After HyperCard, AI Is Democratizing Development Again<\/a>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-36551-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_08_27.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_08_27.mp3\">https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_08_27.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a title=\"mp3 download\" href=\"https:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/nosillacast\/traffic.libsyn.com\/nosillacast\/CCATP_2026_08_27.mp3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">mp3 download<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read an unedited, auto-generated transcript with chapter marks: <a href=\"https:\/\/podfeet.com\/transcripts\/CCATP_2026_08_27.html\">CCATP_2026_08_27<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yet another delightful conversation with Adam Engst, he fires up the WABAC machine and walks us through his journey of never successfully becoming a programmer. Two periods in time allowed him to unleash his creativity: HyperCard in the 1980s and today with AI-assisted programming. The basis for the conversation was his article on TidBITS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[172,1],"tags":[8397,980,8395,8396,176],"class_list":["post-36551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ccatp","category-podcasts","tag-ai-assistend-programming","tag-coding","tag-hypercard","tag-hypertalk","tag-programming"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/ChitChatPond_V7_300px.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36551"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36553,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36551\/revisions\/36553"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}