> No one can predict anything.
Nobody ever could. Accept this reality and everything will be fine.
Ask HN: How are you all staying sane?
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#32Feels more like things are chaotic and uncertain to me rather than explicitly negative.
eg still think there is a fair bit of upside to be had from AI even if it does make me wary about job situation on a 5-10 year scale.
It sure as hell won’t be boring the next 10 years that’s for sure. And that to me is a positive on itself.
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#33Define sane.
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#34It helps to have lived through some of this (especially conflicts) in 1990s (former Yugoslavia), so it is really more of the same.
Even the president US got, we have claim to being early birds ourselves with our current sitting president in Serbia for ~13 years now (they've switched between being a prime minister and president to work around two-term limit): we are very familiar with the rhetoric and "style" (lack of?) of communication, albeit from a less influential position.
AI, as mentioned, is just a tool. A very powerful one, so will cause damage left and right, but also some large productivity jumps when wielded well. Pick up and do good with it.
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#35My biggest problem right now is thanks to Claude I'm making much faster progress on my passion project and I'm working in a maniac state almost, but then I remind myself that it's probably meaningless because if things progress as they have, anyone can just copy what I've built, and if we get to AGI all bets are off anyway. Balancing these two moods is tough. Lots of sleepless nights lately. Thankfully I have a large…
> robably meaningless because if things progress as they have, anyone can just copy what I've built
Most other people lack the prerequisite skills even with Claude at their disposal. And it was always the case that other people could copy your things, it's just the effort was much higher, now it's more accessible.
Regardless, I would suggest you don't let this deter you from bringing something new into this world. It might have enough value to make it all worth it. Or not, but not releasing it you won't find out for sure.
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#36Off topic? By a throwaway account AI slopper no less.
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#37 echo 0.0.0.0 news.ycombinator.com | sudo tee /etc/hosts
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#38Popcorn
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#39I have split my life into things I can control and I can't control. Both at home and at work. There are things that sit on the line of course but global affairs are firmly non-controlable in near term at least, baring any elections I can express my view through.
I do get why people are generally struggling more, the concept of stability in many senses of that word seems to be gone.
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#40Is this a mental health advice request or an invitation to rant? Serious question. We can do one of these, but not both, I think.