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It's really helpful to read this thread. There's a limit to how much I'll share but one thing that might ring true for others is how sort of crazy I feel because the forces people on this forum are talking about are hitting the world very unevenly.

I like my therapist quite a bit but respectfully he has no concept of how AI is impacting huge swaths of white collar work. To people who haven't experienced the 2 year delta in what a coding job looks like, you can sort of sound like a nut. Or they won't appreciate the magnitude of it. Especially if they're not plugged into the news.

I frequently look around and ask "is this really happening?" - I think it is happening, as convenient as it might be if it weren't.

Except I never bought cryptocurrency and I don't have TikTok and you being right about eBooks has no bearing on the success or failure of personal AR

When I've done them, I always feel like I benefit from reflective practices like these.

Does anyone have tips for successfully building reflection into one's life? In the mean time I'll reflect on it.

I share some of your concerns and I'd not thought about this angle - folks outside the west doing this kind of work. So thanks for sharing.

I have attempted to shift my mindset a little, thinking about how I might become an effective user of AI tools. I hope if I can do this that it will keep me employable, or even enable me to start some kind of venture down the line. Maybe there's a path forward for you and your friend on that route. Best of luck.

It was a chain (Sherwin Williams), so I assume they could afford an in house dev team.

I worked at a paint store in my teens (2010s) that operated a beautiful text only PoS system that had been built decades ago and it was incredible. So efficient, purpose built, nary a click.

"good luck paying your mortgage until this gets figured out"

Also could be a pregnancy/fertility motif?

Why would we want an AI that writes novels though? Is this a "to see if we can" thing?

Let's say this or some future AI system writes better novels than any human author at a fraction of the cost. Novel writing is solved.

What will we have achieved?

I wish I could opt out of this world you want to create, where if you achieve your vision, I will be utterly useless and obsolete.

I sort of assume this is always happening to varying degrees. The net effect even for a skeptic is that you are less trusting of all media. Feels like a nearly unsolvable problem.

Btw I'm sure it's a two way street.

Maybe it's not "elaborate", relative term, but it's multi step, several fake accounts, a fake mail server, multi step interview, and it's tailored to a specific company and targeted to a relevant audience.

I mean, if you can write arbitrary jsx and react, seems like you can define your own components?

MySpace was my first coding experience and I think ultimately tipped me to CS in school.

I remember laying out my page like a pink and black newspaper. All that work for no one to read lol.

But now it is essentially my career

The situation OP described is really not that unbelievable to me. I've met one or two developers who really were "the best in the room" at a smaller company and I can imagine them writing something like this. Nobody hated them. The 70/30 balance seems relatively lopsided though.