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I used to feel dismayed that I missed that era of the internet and technology (I'm 19). IRC, forums, work-in-progress gifs on personal websites, etc.

I still wish I were there for that, but I'm glad I get to be here for LLMs and the intelligence explosion. I have absolutely no idea what the world will look like in a few years. It certainly isn't the certain high-paying tech job in a largely static world that it looked like a few years ago.

But whatever happens, it's going to be interesting!

I wonder whether I'm spending my time optimally, working on a little SAAS that happens to use LLMs as a downstream commodity, contributing through a niche benchmark.

I agree I also lived through that time and you saw stuff like jQuery be supercede by marionette and backbone js maybe ember when it came out. But those were all kind of flavors of the same thing, ultimately speaking. With these new models coming out it seems like every time there's a new model it unlocks a gigantic New branch of application type

It'll be worse actually, with all the vibe coders out there: https://www.reddit.com/r/vibecoding/