Comment by reconnecting
8 hours ago
The latest developments in digital culture are somehow more frustrating than anything I saw in the previous 26 years. Experience is replaced by prompts. Taste perfected over the years with defaults.
I'm not afraid of competition with AI-driven competitors — I'm afraid of people replacing real beauty with A/B mechanics.
Perhaps this is indeed a good moment to switch to offline.
Thank you for sharing your inspiring example.
I started programming when I was eleven years old and I’m now in my 40s. I have no idea what to do with the rest of my life.
Same here. I've long had the feeling that the internet could somehow help the world, but honestly, I don't feel that's the case anymore.
There is a whole lot of crap out there. But I think the Internet HAS been a game changer in lifting people out of poverty and increasing standards of living. Communication is awesome. And although there is a lot of propaganda (which there has always been) there is now also a lot of truth and counter claims. It’s no longer just the rich that have access to information (think of farmers guessing at what their crop was worth). I _hope_ AI will do similarly, but I have my doubts on that one.
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jnovek, don't listen to him! Piracy is never the way.
https://youtu.be/9fUjwV4j-H0 (The Offspring - Have You Ever)
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There's a whole lot of us out there. I don't know if there's still a future in the thing that I love, which is where all the malaise comes from.
“Have you ever considered piracy? You’d make a wonderful Dread Pirate Roberts”
https://youtu.be/IIbeFgaYTNs
Keep going? Just because there’s a different way to do what you like doing doesn’t mean you should stop.
Or become a carpenter. The world is going to be flooded by them.
Do w hat we did in corporate/banking/other sociopathic envs did decades ago - find another source of fulfillment and happiness. For me its adventures and sports and kids, could be something else for the next joe.
Or just code as you want as a hobby, unrestrained, for whatever you need or makes you happy.
>I'm afraid of people replacing real beauty with A/B mechanics.
This has been happening for at least a decade now, no help from LLMs needed.