For me, I'm more interested in learning the internals of systems (How do locks work, and why do we need them? How does VFS work?) and making experimental implementations in learning OSes (for sure I don't have the technical skills to implement the ideas in production OSes). AI helps by being a very good search engine, but other than that it doesn't help much, as I completely block code generation from an AI agent. Everything is discussion only.

I completely agree with it. LLM might be able to 10x the number of PRs, and maybe that is actually is fine for the company because it doesn't care too much about verifications and such. It just wants to ship something that works. But individuals still learn at approximately the same speed. My brain still needs to hit some walls, scream at itself and assimilate the failure and success of my past, to actually learn something new. LLM does help by serving as a very good search engine if I can't Google it easily, but no more than that.

I'm also very happy that OP said "I don't know" a few times.

1. Feed it with Ultima II/III assets;

2. Feed it with reverse engineering research of such assets;

3. Ask it to use C++ and SDL2/3 to write a game engine to draw maps, generate enemies, make cities and shops. It doesn't have to be faithful to the game, just something passable is good enough;

4. See how it works.

> We have a tagged union, which can hold either A or B. We initialize the union as A, take a pointer to its internals, overwrite the original with B, and then use the pointer. The pointer is still typed as A, but the bytes it points to now belong to B: a type confusion.

And when you said "before being given carte blanche to go off and make a new programming language to supposedly fit that niche?", did you mean that (https://go.dev/talks/2012/splash.article#TOC_4) is not justified? I'm just curious.

Like, if you write a text editor nowadays, my thoughts would probably NOT be too different, except that 1) I wouldn't speak out, and 2) I'd congratulate you, for real, because this world doesn't give ordinary people good time.

I live in Montreal, but sometimes I see bitter weathers in Toronto during the winter. Ofc we have our share of pain, but I'm fine with snow -- raining is a huge problem in recent years -- I'm installing a French Drain right now, and hopefully it offers enough protection. However, my house is sitting on top of clay, so that could be a big issue.

But my 2 cents anyway: I think you need to figure out your life first. You are 16 so you are going to college (or do other things) soon. You should at least figure out the general direction you want to pursue and then make plans. You don't have to stick to one direction, though.

Another advice -- restrict the resources you have access to when you are learning anything seriously. Remove as much of AI, Internet, mobile from your learning process as possible. I know this is controversial, but I believe that constraint is the father of creativity.

Read code, and then build it and run manually in my IDE against some ad-hoc test cases (unit test cases should be automated). Then check for styles and documentation.

My real way for any PR nowadays because we want vElOciTY:

"LGTM".

One blog says it is charged by the amount of change logs (but the official doc doesn't say so), which makes sense. But how do I estimate the amount? My hunch is: Put + Write + (1~100) * TransitWrite + Update + Delete + (1~25) * BatchWrite.

I wish I could get a role to work on OLTP databases. PostgreSQL seems to be a fascinating topic so that's on my plate.