[reconnecting]

The latest developments in digital culture are somehow more frustrating than anything I saw in the previous 26 years. Experience is replaced by prompts. Taste perfected over the years with defaults.

I'm not afraid of competition with AI-driven competitors — I'm afraid of people replacing real beauty with A/B mechanics.

Perhaps this is indeed a good moment to switch to offline.

Thank you for sharing your inspiring example.

[jnovek]

I started programming when I was eleven years old and I’m now in my 40s. I have no idea what to do with the rest of my life.

[reconnecting]

Same here. I've long had the feeling that the internet could somehow help the world, but honestly, I don't feel that's the case anymore.

[Remnant44]

There's a whole lot of us out there. I don't know if there's still a future in the thing that I love, which is where all the malaise comes from.

[derektank]

“Have you ever considered piracy? You’d make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts”

https://youtu.be/IIbeFgaYTNs

[Aeolun]

Keep going? Just because there’s a different way to do what you like doing doesn’t mean you should stop.

Or become a carpenter. The world is going to be flooded by them.

[cobbzilla]

keep programming and learn to use AI.

it’s just another tool. lots of people didn’t want to use compilers and got left behind. the world moved on.

i’m older than you and doing fine. it’s just another tech upheaval, we’ve been through plenty.

yes it gets tiring and at some point you find your way off the treadmill. but it’s really not that hard to stay on, especially if you have the experience.

[kakacik]

Do w hat we did in corporate/banking/other sociopathic envs did decades ago - find another source of fulfillment and happiness. For me its adventures and sports and kids, could be something else for the next joe.

Or just code as you want as a hobby, unrestrained, for whatever you need or makes you happy.

[pixl97]

>I'm afraid of people replacing real beauty with A/B mechanics.

This has been happening for at least a decade now, no help from LLMs needed.

[reconnecting]

A decade ago, you needed to think and choose from a dozen solutions, now AI provides you with two options to execute.

A/B testing/validation has become a sort of A/B creation method.