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.

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?

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?

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

For the past months, maybe a year, I have lost any interest in technology, software and hardware. When I was a teenager, I had very big passion to software engineering, and have seen technology as something good, a way to improve peoples lives.

With the arrival of AI, everything changed. Don't get me wrong, I like that I can tell Claude what to do, while I can do something else, but I can't keep closing my eyes onto the fact that I'm basically pushing myself out of the job market. Sure, you could argue that I should write code by hand, but this is a competitive disadvantage on a market that lost its mind.

On top of all that, almost every new technological progress is a wolf in sheep clothes. If you remove the fluff and the marketing, it seems like all these new startups are just yet another get-rich-quick-schemes where they raise as much money as possible, while promising one thing to the users, but delivering another. And when they eventually cash-out, everyone is left worse off.

I'm approaching 40. Maybe I'm just getting old and nostalgic. But I don't know how to move forward, how do I keep working and motivating myself. I lost any interest in work, or any care I had for the product (why should I care? It's not mine anymore when Claude writes everything). I lost any hope in technology in the terms that it will bring us to a better future. And I honestly, don't know what to do anymore.

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

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"

― 1 Corinthians 13:11

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.