I'm sitting on a macbook M1 with 3 different IDEs running, 3 chrome windows with a total of about 40 tabs open (a relatively small amount for me!), slack, iterm

I'm sitting on a macbook M1 with 3 different IDEs running, 3 chrome windows with a total of about 40 tabs open (a relatively small amount for me!), slack, iterm with 7 tabs, preview with some PDFs open, VPN, zoom, and a bunch of addons. I haven't seen a bug happen in a weeks. The IDE is like magic compared to the 1990s (I graduated college in 92, so was professionally developing at that point) - faster, smarter, more well organized, and just vastly improved. In the 90s, you always saved multiple copies of everything because there was no versioning systems to speak of, and every application liked to randomly die, corrupting your file. It was a regular occurence - as in weekly, sometimes more with MS Word. There were no significant help systems or context suggestions or autocompletions or spell checkers, and searching was a slow affair. It took minutes to boot up a significantly-loaded computer. Viruses were regular and nasty, and security wasn't a thing. Today is infinitely better, albeit more complex. I couldn't stand even thinking of developing any of the software I work on today with a 1990s PC - the thought is just inane. Let alone developing without Stack Overflow, or even now, just getting CoPilot to do it for you. Loading times and such can be a bit long from time to time, but that's just because wait times are keyed to how much people are willing to wait, so the waiting time distribution is centered on that value. We could have subsecond wait times for everything, but people are ok to sacrifice a bit of time for cheaper costs or more functionality or any number of options. These kind of articles have been popping up monthly on HN and I'm tired of them, but I get it - computers aren't perfect and the complexity of the world is insane, and while I wouldn't use a 90s computer, I would love to be working on 90s problems again - I spent almost all of my time writing new code, because the world needed that code. Now it is mostly just integrating and tweaking, and the big problems are figuring out what people want and need and if there's a way to get it to them. You don't need to write a rasterizer or a 3D renderer or a database or any number of fun projects, because there are a million different versions of those out there that would take years or decades to replicate. Bug the hardware and software we are using? Orders of magnitude better! And fast - holy hell is it fast. Just because you don't understand what it is doing doesn't mean it is slow.