Comment by wahnfrieden
14 hours ago
Just regret waiting until I was 35 to attempt it and now I'm already going on 40. Wasted good years on easy mode.
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But this part is wild to me: "I use AI for some things. It helped me fix a few bugs a couple of times"
I can't imagine being solo indie and not leaning hard into Codex, CC, or Composer at this point. To use it only sometimes for the rare bug or copy editing sounds tragic. It's been an incredible boon for me at least - extending, refactoring, prototyping etc. within a complex codebase I wrote myself and in new ones that I guide it on.
> It’s especially bad with new APIs.
It's great if you give it the context
> I can't imagine being solo indie and not leaning hard into Codex, CC, or Composer at this point.
Some of us don't want to because we like our artisanal programming, and being indie is great because we don't have to capitulate to management forcing us to use AI all the time.
That's sort of my feeling. I really enjoy coding.
What's that saying? "If you love what you do, you never work a day in your life."
I use LLMs every day, but not to write my software. I use them like really good personal assistants. They are now a standard (and invaluable) part of my daily workflow.
I'm not exactly "indie" (retired at 55, and working for free), but I can relate to a lot of what's being discussed, here.
Similar situation here. Laid off last year (at 45), can just about afford to retire to a frugal life (which I wouldn't mind at all).
But now that I am finally free to write only software that I want to bring into the world, I cannot imagine playing roulette with LLMs all day for something as mundane as productivity, giving up all the intellectual joys of the craft as well.
And the relief of not having to justify to a manager why things are taking longer than expected! It's like the giant finger that had been pressing down on me almost all my working life has finally been lifted. Sweet semi-retirement, how I love thee.
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> Wasted good years on easy mode.
I wouldn't say I wasted the good years on easy mode, but I did have a misguided plan that I needed to become a team lead and then I could start on my side projects.
I thought I'd have more time because I saw just how little my team leads actually did at work, and no, they weren't doing it behind the scenes, they wouldn't even show up to meetings with the business.
Of course I cared too much, burnt out my best years, quit and now have jack to show for it on the wrong side of 40 when I could have built up my own indie empire.
It seems like these people don't paste in the API documentation and say, " based on the document... ". Did I just reveal too much?
Haha, same