Otherwise though - same as usual, although I do keep my AI agent and my editor separate since I still choose to review, verify, and even write a lot of the code myself (too poor to constantly throw money at an LLM)

(Sadly speaking from experience)

I very often went on a baked circuit there, not as a “let’s get a faster lap time”, but more of a “clear my mind” type of ride. For things like this, I definitely prefer to be baked simply because of how it weirdly helped me disconnect from everything else going on in my life, focusing only on the about 15-20km of quiet, nature-adjacent, 95% empty, smooth bike road.

When I took the same scooter out to ride within traffic (akin to a motorbike, following all traffic rules aside from “vehicle registration” and “a license” because these weren’t and AFAIK still aren’t feasible for these), it was a whole different story. What riding with cannabis showed me was that you need to have trust in both yourself and your surroundings. But riding in traffic, sharing the road with people that aren’t even used to seeing motorbikes on the road that often (let alone electric scooters sharing the road with cars), being baked definitely made things more stressful than it would have needed to be.

I started programming at 12 because I loved games and wanted to grow up to become a game developer. Then life happened and I had to drop out of high school, find work (in web and mobile), which is what I have now been doing for the past decade.

After just a few years into actually working, I had the thought that maybe the thing I’m passionate in isn’t actually valuable to companies. Getting existential anxiety around the age of 20 is insane. So I instead figured “fuck it, I’ll play this game until I can finance returning to school, continue my education, and go from there.”

Over the years, this sort of existential “this is my passion, but I hate doing it as a job” just grew and grew up until we had AI. That just made things even more unbearable, up until now when I decided that if I’m going to be working in this bullshit industry, I’d rather be doing something which I enjoy.”

Using AI to build software has for me removed nearly everything that has still kept me thinking that maybe I could power through it. So now, I’m going to instead dive into actually learning C, then moving more towards embedded devices, and ultimately trying to pivot (or grow) my skillset towards that area instead. Since I also love to teach, my plan is to start both documenting my journey through videos, and to try to also get my feet wet with trying to make educational content.

For money though, I have no fucking clue what I’ll do. But the important thing for me is that whatever I do, or however much I make - at least I’ll enjoy the journey, instead of waking up miserable.

Edit: at least when it comes to PII, which I presume should include photos of you, or any personal detail of you. The content you may have posted there up until then - that might be a different story

Similarly, there used to be this place called The Trees Network which essentially had a very similar “watching TV” feel, except it also had a community feature (live chat, content recommendations, etc). It was mostly meant for people getting stoned and wanting to “watch TV” together with other, but has since shut down (presumably because of copyright related issues or something)

Are you by chance planning to include any “community channels” or stuff like that by chance?