For what it’s worth, 75,017,613 people disagree.

Yeah, I feel like I understand. AI has recently invaded the homebrew, retro computing and fantasy hardware spaces as well. This is a space that isn’t conducive to fame, glory or money and is really just filled with us old cats reliving the mystery and awe of 6502/6809 programming. Everyday lately, I see someone posting about how awesome their clone of <insert arcade game here> is. Posting some file written by some AI tool. It always follows with “I used <insert tool here> and I have quite a few bugs to work out but its working.”

To me, it feels like it devalues all of the work put in to learning these older skills and techniques. Makes me feel like I wasted a lot of time trying to learn and understand them. F’it. I’m ready to retire anyway. I need to play more golf or bocce or something outdoors anyway. It will be a while before AI invades that.

I’ve had a few serious burnouts and anhedonia is a big tell. When I start to lose joy in pretty much everything I know I’ve hit a wall. Someone else in here talked about a sense of dread when you think about work, that’s a clear sign for me too. Exhaustion is common.

I can destroy am destroying the country. FIFY

In retrospect (35-40 years ago now) she was the keeper. She was sweet, quirky and supportive. Liked rock/metal, concerts, games, generally nerdy stuff like me. But…like a teenage dude as soon as someone exotic and hot showed interest I broke up with her. That exotic one “dear john lettered” me in basic training before Desert Storm and slept will all my friends. I think there’s a lesson in there somewhere.