piloto_ciego

I'm not a blue angel, but when I used to be a pilot literally every time I went to sim, I would chairfly for maybe an hour a night, visualizing and moving my hand to where the switch was, etc. for each and every emergency procedure. It works quite well.

Who are you to define what meaning is, where it comes from, etc.?

There are many more ways to contribute to something larger thab yourself than work too

> maybe people don’t like being told they are not special

is not really a rebuttal of what I was saying.

People are all trying to be John Henry here… common people

I used to be a paid professional scientist for a few years. I think your take is quite naive here.

I doubt that lasts for very long.

Regardless, we're all needing to learn that we weren't as special as we thought we were.

I was gonna say, "first time?"

We were the bane of everything's existence for like 20 years, despite having the highest test scores, the best educations, working more hours than everyone, and making less.

Come on in, the avocado toast is delish...

The plagiarism and copyright stuff is just a smoke screen.

A lot of people are upset because they used to be special, their identities were tied to them being smarter, or having more niche domain knowledge than anyone else. Ai has changed that.

> math has destroyed a major source of “life’s meaning”

YOU ARE NOT YOUR WORK! My god people! The meaning you get from life shouldn’t be reduced entirely to the job you do. Mathematician, or programmer, or pilot, or ship captain, or janitor or otherwise.

I already had to learn this, but the sooner you decouple your professional life from “what makes you… you” the better.

You say that, and then here I am basically vibe coding SaaS for money right now lol

Yeah it depends on the industry, but SaaS is damn criminal lol

Personally I’m perfectly happy with having like several good companies ideally in different industries that I can do a good job for. I mean, we will see what happens but so far it’s quite fun.

It’s incredibly easy; when something breaks I fix it. 95% of the time that is just me pointing Claude or usually codex at the problem and drinking coffee.

All word of mouth so far from an industry I’m intimately familiar with. So maybe YMMV, but I started by saying, “hey, let me build something for you, if you like it we can figure out how to pay for it” then I started just doing things and they’ve kept happily paying the invoices.

I’m on vacation right now, but my main customer is constantly adding new feature requests, etc. and until I went on vacation their work was as good as 2 or 3 customers per month, “oh can you do this? What about this?” I honestly am looking forward for them to throttle back a little because I could use another similar volume customer, but I hardly have enough time to really invest to make that happen until they get all the things they want and while they’re paying me I ain’t going to stop.

It was also pretty cool, because there’s a young engineer working there in a non-engineer role as a human forklift. I said, “hey, I need help implementing all this stuff” now he has a raise, and he is kind of like an embedded customer support person, and I don’t have to stress about it so much.

Regardless, just build.

The phone call automation for their front desk saves something like 40 hours of work a month just of people looking up customers to call about their schedule etc. And that’s just one tool and I deployed it in like 4 days. It’s really not that hard, just go out and make people’s lives easier and stop trying to scale or whatever.

You think a construction company or an air taxi has an in house engineering team?

Good lord guys…

Lolz, I’m literally doing this right now for a living.

When a software suite costs a company $70-100k per year that does a bunch of stuff they don’t want, they’ll definitely pay you to build bespoke tools for $24k per year.

Literally doing this now.

People are scared is why.