Reality has sapped all the hope for the future out of me

neovim users spending 3 days rewriting old unmaintained extension for telescope

(let me preach a little, I have to listen to my boss gushing about AI every meeting)

Compare AI tools: now vs 3 years ago. All those 2022 “Prompt engineer” courses are totally useless in 2025.

Extrapolate into the future and realize, that you’re not losing anything valuable by not learning AI tools today. The whole point of them is they don’t require any proficiency. It “just works”.

Instead focus on what makes you a good developer: understanding how things work, which solution is good for what problem, centering your divs.

Im a mid with two juniors under me, super happy when they take initiative and do something creative

… instead of following youtrack to the letter, leaving me to rewrite half of it before the merge 😔

The slop will be caught, your rating lowered until all your messages are simply filtered out as spam.

you could try to cook up some kind of trust chain, without totally abandoning privacy.

Get a government-certified agencies minting master key tied to your id. You only get one, with trust rating tied to it.

With that master key you can generate infinite amount of sub-ids that dont identify you but show your trust rating(fuzzed).

Have a cross-network reporting system that can lower that rating for abuses like botting.

idk Im just spitballing