Meanwhile I'm constantly updating (and checking out what's new) 3 GUI frontends for AI agents, 5 code editors with agent plugins, opened about 50 tabs + about 5 new every day (that I'm afraid to look at) with github repos and search results for skills, MCPs and advice threads (I know these will become obsolete in about 2 weeks or so). I also sent myself some 30 emails with articles that I won't read.

I'm 54 and while I consider myself reasonably up-to-date (aside from Swift modern concurrency, it's just too much for me) this train feels just too fast for me, I kinda wish it rolled a bit slower (but then again, probably a lot of people felt this before).

Started with read-book-get-hooked-on-programming, in late 80ies had chance (from small rural city go to bigger city 2x/week) to use Электроника БК-0010 in programming club, 90ies-soviet IBM mainframe clone with Rexx in the uni & PC revolution (Turbo Pascal, love you) from 8080->Pentiums, co-made library software for universities (dBase and FoxPro), co-founded software dev company (Oracle DB&Forms, web, Lotus, 15 years), sold it, got burnout, first (original) iPhone and mobile apps ever since.

Now I'm looking on my business (my iOS and Android apps I worked on for more than 15 years) and then there's this chart:

And I know that @steipete and @mergesort and @dimillian are probably right and I applaud and respect @krzyzanowskim for being cool/skeptical with the train/hype and making https://CommanderAI.app (I hope you will sell it for billion), but it is exhausting even to watch. And I hate woods/handworking so that's also not an option.

@steipete @xjki @mergesort @dimillian @krzyzanowskim there are not that many armies that need to be built and it’s difficult for any one person to afford their own health insurance, is why it is difficult to be excited and celebrate