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I'm sort of glad to be retiring soon. I have a feeling everything I enjoy about programming is going to be going away.

I get the feeling. But I've always enjoyed the abstract puzzles more then anything. Computers attracted me as a form of very complex abstract puzzles.

But when it comes down to it everything in life is just nth dimensional tensor puzzles. What I really cherish computers for giving me is fast and clear feedback.

I'm about 10-15 years from retiring, and lately, I've been thinking a lot about how to handle the rest of my career with all these new AI advancements.

This disruption does appear to be different than others prior. As it is not a narrow disruption with limited boundaries for which we can plan and organize our lives for some stabilization period to follow.

Instead, it is constant and accelerating destabilization. Hundreds of AI projects attempting to ride this accelerating wave were essentially just made obsolete yesterday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DH-2BHDYNfk

I feel the excitement is going to very soon turn into frustration of attempting to remain relevant ahead of the accelerating technological curve. Humans need periods of stabilization to plan and reason about their lives.

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