[hypfer]

No, why?

Why do you look at it that way? Why does anyone beside you have to care about what you do?

Just build something for yourself. You will always have things you'd like to build for yourself. You will be in competition with yourself only and your target audience will be yourself.

Market forces do not apply to side-projects, because that's what people do for fun.

Just because there are chess computers, doesn't mean that no one plays chess anymore at home.

[RivieraKid]

Isn't it obvious? The reward that a personal project can generate for you is limited. It's not remotely close to what a successful project would give you - money, fulfillment, social capital, feeling good about yourself, etc.

[hypfer]

Yes but you see, maybe all of that was wrong in the first place?

This is just a correction of something that managed to remain in an invalid state for an impressively long time.

[weatherlite]

Not only that, I have a feeling a lot of people are gonna be disappointed now they can implement their side projects in a week instead of 6 months. Finally - the thing is there, ready. And the likely outcome is

a) Almost no one but you cares and

b) Now that this has become trivial, there's no much joy in it. The struggle we had before A.I was the real joy; prompting agents for a few days and getting what you want isn't that joyful.

[ihaveajob]

Ironically I had a very smart and otherwise reasonable math professor who, shortly after Kasparov lost to Deep Blue, said in class that chess was no longer interesting.

[FpUser]

In that sense running competition is no longer interesting since I can jut ride in the car

[hypfer]

I mean I would too be concerned if such a major event _wouldn't_ make people question their assumptions/beliefs/ideas/visions.

If you have no reaction at all, you probably weren't paying attention.

Eventually though, people _should_ recover and return after having processed the changes. So maybe the professor was still recovering at the time?