New ask Hacker News story: Ask HN: I lost any interest in technology. What do I do?
Ask HN: I lost any interest in technology. What do I do?
10 by fnoef | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Dear HN, For the past months, maybe a year, I have lost any interest in technology, software and hardware. When I was a teenager, I had very big passion to software engineering, and have seen technology as something good, a way to improve peoples lives. With the arrival of AI, everything changed. Don't get me wrong, I like that I can tell Claude what to do, while I can do something else, but I can't keep closing my eyes onto the fact that I'm basically pushing myself out of the job market. Sure, you could argue that I should write code by hand, but this is a competitive disadvantage on a market that lost its mind. On top of all that, almost every new technological progress is a wolf in sheep clothes. If you remove the fluff and the marketing, it seems like all these new startups are just yet another get-rich-quick-schemes where they raise as much money as possible, while promising one thing to the users, but delivering another. And when they eventually cash-out, everyone is left worse off. I'm approaching 40. Maybe I'm just getting old and nostalgic. But I don't know how to move forward, how do I keep working and motivating myself. I lost any interest in work, or any care I had for the product (why should I care? It's not mine anymore when Claude writes everything). I lost any hope in technology in the terms that it will bring us to a better future. And I honestly, don't know what to do anymore.
10 by fnoef | 12 comments on Hacker News.
Dear HN, For the past months, maybe a year, I have lost any interest in technology, software and hardware. When I was a teenager, I had very big passion to software engineering, and have seen technology as something good, a way to improve peoples lives. With the arrival of AI, everything changed. Don't get me wrong, I like that I can tell Claude what to do, while I can do something else, but I can't keep closing my eyes onto the fact that I'm basically pushing myself out of the job market. Sure, you could argue that I should write code by hand, but this is a competitive disadvantage on a market that lost its mind. On top of all that, almost every new technological progress is a wolf in sheep clothes. If you remove the fluff and the marketing, it seems like all these new startups are just yet another get-rich-quick-schemes where they raise as much money as possible, while promising one thing to the users, but delivering another. And when they eventually cash-out, everyone is left worse off. I'm approaching 40. Maybe I'm just getting old and nostalgic. But I don't know how to move forward, how do I keep working and motivating myself. I lost any interest in work, or any care I had for the product (why should I care? It's not mine anymore when Claude writes everything). I lost any hope in technology in the terms that it will bring us to a better future. And I honestly, don't know what to do anymore.
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