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Very relatable. Also feeling the dread re. AI, but more so because I really enjoy programming and have no other marketable skills (and I have no interest in ret

Very relatable. Also feeling the dread re. AI, but more so because I really enjoy programming and have no other marketable skills (and I have no interest in retraining). I think it's a decade or two away but I can see programming as a job changing so much as to be uninteresting to me. Hell, Agile has made it barely tolerable now. I'm also almost done with the web. I remember listening to the dialup modem with excitement, browsing the web, downloading things and just being generally enthralled with everything the web had to offer. Now it feels like a mall with 3 chain stores in it. Being mostly a web dev, I'm in a kind of weird spot mentally about what I do with 80%+ of my time (i.e. program for the web, browse the web).

carapace 4y ago
Same here. The kind of programming I love to do is now a hobby only. (It's a good thing, I think, because the machines will write bug-free code, but I'm wistful. And the money sure was nice!) I'm going to build toy computers for people like us who just like computers (something like Nand-to-Tetris, eh? Or Ben Eater's great kits.) but I'm not kidding myself that that's going to make a lot of money (not like programming used to.)