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Either my brain is cooked or this is AI generated/assisted text.

The problem is I can no longer tell the difference between AI and non-AI writing. Maybe my brain got bad, maybe everyone now writes like AI writes.

I no longer know.

Isn’t that the point of a hobby? To enjoy the path and not the result? To learn something new.

I understand using LLMs as tools to help you with your hobby, but I think when “Claude spends hours debugging it” it probably is no longer a hobby, but an outsourced job.

"OS for work" - like, what does it mean? OS is operating system, it runs on a hardware and provides you to operate the system. I hate when companies destroy the English language with vibe invented terms.

This is incredible. Seems like a big achievement.

The only thing that bothers me is what happens when robots finally automated "all the mundane day-to-day tasks" including our jobs, what is there left to do for common folks who are not geniuses working at Google/Anthropic/ChatGPT or occupy the C-Suite of these companies?

> This Snow Crash thing--is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?

I’m sorry, what does it mean?

I’m sorry. I tried to understand what is this about, but I couldn’t. The title didn’t explain it. The description neither.

I remember I heard a saying somewhere that if you can explain what you are doing in a few simple sentences, then is is this really something valuable?

Thank you for saying this.

Every time I see a substack article I simply do not open it, because if I do, especially on mobile, 90% of the screen will be covered for popups banners and what not

That's the problem - nothing. I was loving the profession so much that I did it during working hours, and then working on my stuff in the evenings and weekends.

My typing got worse, my ability to read got worse, my ability to understand code I read got worse, my ability to think got worse, my ability to concentrate worse.

On the bright side, I can watch YouTube while fable is writing, mostly, working code

Kind of ironic that an article that criticizes Google turning into an ad machine opens up with a “we have noticed you have an ad blocker installed” whole page pop-up

I wonder, what will you do with that free time you will crave?

OMG leave the emojis alone! It's the classic example of a product that reached it's final form. Stop "innovating" the damn emojis

That’s the smoking gun. Should have used gigabytes instead of bytes. Thank you for pointing me at the issue.

of course it is, never claimed it to be universal truth or something

It's not the single act, but the compound effect of millions of such acts across the entire industry.

There are different grades of "fun". You can do silly things at work, name your servers bob and lola, while still serve the functionality and needs of your customers. But hiring an artist to draw the server as ninjas because "they protect our customers"? What kind of value does that bring? And then you write a blog post about it? Seriously?

Knowing when the fun needs to stop is a way to create valuable things in society. I prefer that, compared to living in world where the state of software is so dire because developers are overgrown kids that spend time writing blog posts about how they named their server pikachu because "pikachu is soooooo cute!!!1111"

> When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me.

― 1 Corinthians 13:11

The wrong in this, is the extent they went to with this. I mean, name your servers whatever you want, but hiring an artist to draw the servers personalities and then writing a blog post about this? Like common, that's something a child would do about their favorite toy. At some point, people need to grow up.

And I guess the other "wrong with it" is the fact that it just wastes human potential. Build robust software and take pride in this, not it naming your servers bob and lola.

This is so cringe. I feel like software engineers are just overgrown toddlers stuck in kindergarten: "We named our servers with boy and girls names and hired an artist to draw their personalities as ninjas!!@!111". I mean, whats wrong with a plain old 4 character hash or whatever?

I keep hearing my this very much, so I have a question: what fun parts are there left for me?

It feels like this message of “offloading mundane tasks so you will have more time to do fun parts” is being pushed so hard, but in reality the opposite is happening. Fun parts are being offloaded while I’m left doing the soul sucking and mundane parts

You made my evening a bit better by your message, kind stranger. It is lonely in there, but I suspect you know, just like me, that we can't chose a different path.

I bet you had to solve math equations and prove math stuff to get your degree, am I right? Now imagine I tell you that you could have just prompted LLMs with “please solve the is and make no mistakes”, would you think you’d be able to get your math degree?

The point I’m trying to make is that it’s very easy to tell everyone “don’t read the code, just focus on architecture” when you have decades of experience behind your shoulders, where you HAD to read the code, iterate, learn from your mistakes, read code written by others, and actually writing and making stuff yourself to gain that experience and understand architecture.

How do you expect people to learn all this stuff that you know if don’t want them to actually do the work but instead “control the idea”, whatever this means? It’s just baffles me that people don’t see this.

I remember a time when we were told not to run obscure software from questionable websites on our computers. And yet, people are suddenly fully vibing with an uncontrollable character generating machine with who-knows-what-behind-the-scene harness. Crazy.

Very egocentric piece. Almost reads as “I’m so cool, I did so many cool things, and most things other people did is way worse than even the slop that my LLM prompting skills are capable to produce”.

Also “ You have to understand how things work, what is the best design, how to reach a certain level of performance.” - how does OP propose to understand how things work or what is the best design if you don’t actually go and build things or read the code? I hope the answer is not “reading mythical man month” or “watching YouTube video tutorials”.

Please tell me how ads help science research or why should I care about space exploration or LLMs that threaten me and hundreds of thousands of other peoples jobs?

I really really like Astro, but I'm either getting old or it's something else.

I just recently updated my website to Astro 6 and now... there's Astro 7. Maybe by the time I update, Astro 8 will be a few weeks in the future.

I prefer to maintain my code, tailored for my need, than maintaining a massive library that has support for every authentication method there is, while trying to be as generic as possible and fit every business.

Ah, here we go again.

Glad I decided to roll my own auth rather then using some library. I had a feeling that eventually they will join Vercel.

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