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Thank you. It's been rough, but still coding. Messages like yours help more than you know.

I have also used VC++ (ATL, MFC etc) till about 2005 or so - and can relate to that time and dev journey.

You can relatively easily pick up other languages and frameworks, especially using LLMs. This would help with your marketability for jobs.

Email me if you want to brainstorm.

Thanks, truly appreciate your message! yes, I’ve thought about picking up modern tools, especially LLMs. But at this point, I’m more focused on building something meaningful through YT. It’s a new path I’m exploring, maybe my last one.

For someone like you that knows how to write software an LLM is amazing at helping you step out into an unfamiliar area like web development or making plugins for a different ecosystem. You tell it what you're trying to do and it knows specifically which classes to instantiate, functions to call, etc...

Really appreciate that! It gives me hope. Right now, I’m not in the headspace to pick up new coding skills. I’m more focused on processing everything emotionally and capturing/archiving it in a YouTube video (YT: CAD老狗). But yeah, I’ll definitely try it soon.Thank you!

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