[tkhapz]

Since increasingly every "successful" application is a form of an insecure, overcomplicated computer game:

How do you get the mindset to develop such applications? Do you have to play League of Legends for 8 hours per day as a teenager?

Do you have to be a crypto bro who lost money on MtGox?

People in the AI space seem literally mentally ill. How does one acquire the skills (pun intended) to participate in the madness?

[nemomarx]

I mean as long as you're not using it yourself you're not at any real risks, right? The ethos seems to be to just try things and not worry about failing or making mistakes. You should free yourself from the anxiety of those a little bit.

Think about the worst thing your project could do, and remind yourself you'd still be okay if that happened in the wild and people would probably forget about it soon anyway.

[copilot_king_2]

> People in the AI space seem literally mentally ill. How does one acquire the skills (pun intended) to participate in the madness?

Stop reading books. Really, stop reading everything except blog posts on HackerNews. Start watching Youtube videos and Instagram shorts. Alienate people you have in-person relationships with.

[rsynnott]

> Really, stop reading everything except blog posts on HackerNews.

Pft, that is amateur-level. The _real_ 10x vibecoders exclusively read posts on LinkedIn.

(Opened up LinkedIn lately? Everyone on it seems to have gone completely insane. The average LinkedIn-er seems to be just this side of openly worshipping Roko's Basilisk.)