Reflected Code Warrior IA Reflecting On CodeWarrior In Era Of AI - IMRAN® (Anwar.rior)
I'd been waging war on some technical challenges all night while working on an AI cloud‑services programming project. After a shower, I grabbed a random T‑shirt — and was pleasantly surprised to find myself holding a relic from the early days of modern software development.
It instantly made me reflect (literally? 😉) on the journey.
Wearing my vintage CodeWarrior T‑shirt today is a nod to one of the most important developer tools of the classic Mac era.
For my fellow geeks who remember: Metrowerks, founded in 1985 (right after I earned my Electrical Engineering degree in Lahore, Pakistan), built CodeWarrior and later helped Apple navigate some of its most challenging years.
When Apple shifted from the Motorola 68000 CPUs to the new PowerPC chips, CodeWarrior became the development platform — fast, modern, and miles ahead of the older tools.
The first commercial release shipped in 1994, right around the time I was running my tech and media business in Manhattan — while this blessed Long Island home I'm standing in was being built for me.
Time flies. I've crossed the 30‑year mark of living here, and of using a product that shaped an entire generation of Mac developers.
Amazing how a simple T‑shirt can bring back an entire era of innovation, transition, and the scrappy companies that kept the platform alive.
That's AI‑using IA — code warrior Imran Anwar(rior) reflected — reflecting on CodeWarrior.
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