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There's no reason that some people wouldn't be using their new found 10x superpowers on open source projects though

• Supermancho 2mo ago
  I use my powers to finish my own projects (until the next creative barrier) while my professional workload has been reduced to 20% effort with 0 stress. I wrote a game I left in a folder from 11 years ago in 2 months, front and back plus all the tooling, plus features I never would have attempted before. I recreated open-sourced projects from github, written in a language I wasn't familiar with, so I could better work with the application and include it in my backend codebase. I rewrote my mail server in less than 2 days, which took me over 2 weeks to configure and setup the last time. My life is easier, because the demands are the same but I have more free time. I research more, I learn more, and I try more things. Just like any software project, some are abandoned (even with LLMs) when running into unforeseen issues or mismatches with theoretical plans. Most importantly, I can make things that I think are exciting, with very little effort. The first 35 years of development, I struggled to be good enough to tackle sourcing various projects without becoming frustrated and mostly knowing myself well enough to avoid trying at all. Now I can see myself writing passion projects until I'm dead.