I generally agree, but they are damn good at programming and only getting better. Can they build a software solution without an expert? No. But they can replace many junior devs.

This is just stupid of me, but I hate how they changed the grocery store I had been going to for a decade. Everything’s there, just in a different place. It has been over a year and I’m still not over it.

You can run some pretty neat local AI agents on consumer grade hardware without much issue. There are also new models that will run on phone hardware. They won’t write complicated programs, but they work well for assistant things.

I’m not diagnosed, but feel I have a lot of those traits.

There’s a lot of truth to the fact that stress makes a job engaging and rewarding. For me, that level of stress makes me do a better job. Without it, I get bored, have no drive, and disengage. I’ve learned this about myself over the years and purposely make sure I’m in roles that have higher stress so that I can be happy with what I’m doing for a living.