I see two groups of optimistic people about all this.
First, the “OMG I’ve always been a builder, I’m having so much fun”. Yeah, building hobby projects. They’re called a hobby for a reason, they are not means to sustain yourself or your loved ones, particularly when the guy next to you can spin up an AI agent and ask “build me this”.
Then the “coding was never the hard part/where I spent most of my time, engineering is still hard”. Yeah, maybe it still is, but for how long? 2 years? 3?
Both strike me as naive and myopic, but I really wish I’m the one who’s wrong.
I think the “I’m sad” camp are mainly worried about their livelihood. You’re having fun but all of those things you listed are mere hobbies that won’t generate any money, particularly in a world where the next guy can spin up some AI agent, point to whatever you built and ask it “build me this”.
That’s like that scene in the I, Robot movie when Will Smith’s character is asking the robot “can you turn an emtpy canvas into a work of art, or compose a symphony?” and the robot replies “can you?”.
there is a AI designed drug for hair loss that i know of.
its slow-release oral minoxidil formulation called MINX. AI helped with the formulation [1].
its in in similar category as VDPHL01. Hundreds of millions if not a billion dollars has been invested into Veradermics, and their main product is VDPHL01 (also an extended-release oral formulation).
I’ve taken low dose oral min for a few years and it’s systemic, meaning it’ll make all your hair grow. I now have body hair where before it was never noticeable. “I’m hairy like monkey” as my kids say.
Can confirm. My torso and upper arms be sprouting like Robin Williams. Wasn’t like this before. Thankfully that’s easy to buzz off, and worth it to keep my head.
For everyone struggling with hair loss but concerned about side effects of Fin. Look into topical fin. It produces higher concentrations of the medication in the scalp and lower systemic concentration. Not perfect, but better.
So you think if a company can't spend 1 million USD on a rewrite which has almost zero impact on performance, possibly net negative on maintainability it also can't have 500k LOC codebase either? Oh come on...
> I guess I am one of those "architects" that imagines they need an actual date/time storage class instead of some stringly-typed text column that I hope will contain a parsable ISO8601 datetime string when I try to read it back.
To be honest if you're using JSON at any point in your stack you have the same issue.
That I have a DevOps company working entirely on Linux can be directly attributed to realizing as a kid that Unix was a real thing and I needed to install it on my own computer. Interesting it was soon after this movie came out that FreeBSD and Linux were becoming popular.
First, the “OMG I’ve always been a builder, I’m having so much fun”. Yeah, building hobby projects. They’re called a hobby for a reason, they are not means to sustain yourself or your loved ones, particularly when the guy next to you can spin up an AI agent and ask “build me this”.
Then the “coding was never the hard part/where I spent most of my time, engineering is still hard”. Yeah, maybe it still is, but for how long? 2 years? 3?
Both strike me as naive and myopic, but I really wish I’m the one who’s wrong.
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