It’s 2018 and your coworker just sent you a 400 line pull request.
You get a cup of coffee and sit down to review it.
It’s beautiful. Elegant micro-refactors. Crispy method names.
You catch a few things, but that’s ok. It’s part of the dance. They didn’t consider extensibility on part of their API. Here’s a comment buddy.
They respond in an hour saying they think we should do one piece differently than your comment. Hey let’s jump into a room and figure it out. We can’t just agree to disagree, this code is too important.
The PR merges and goes to prod. You feel a shared sense of ownership and accomplishment.
That night you go to sleep and dream of that code. You can still see the shapes of it on the backs of your eyelids, your IDE syntax highlighting sparking neurons in your reptile brain.
You go to work the next day ready to go. You understand the system. N is your foundation. Time to build n+1.
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> you work 9-5 every day
> build your AI side project at night
> “I will escape the underclass”
> then realize you’ve just been working a second unpaid shift as LLM data generator, only this job sends you a $200/month invoice.
Gen Z: Good morning.
Manager: Why haven’t you responded to my email?
Gen Z: Your email? Uhm… yeah, I just saw it come through now.
Manager: I sent it 4 hours ago.
Gen Z: My workday starts at 8 AM.
Manager: 4 hours, and you haven’t even read it?
Gen Z: Well, seeing as it’s 8:02 AM, you actually sent this 2 business minutes ago.
Manager: You know, not monitoring your inbox around the clock says a lot about how much you value this job.
Gen Z: And working around the clock says a lot about how much you value your personal time.
Manager: (Silence.)
My house has 33 GPUs.
> 21x RTX 3090s
> 4x RTX 4090s
> 4x RTX 5090s
> 4x Tenstorrent Blackhole p150a
Before AGI arrives:
Acquire GPUs.
Go into debt if you must.
But whatever you do, secure the GPUs.
never ask "what's your budget"
ask "what did you pay your last guy"
"3k"
"and how'd that work out for you"
they say it sucked
i say "cool so you know cheap doesn't work. i'm 8k. you in or you wanna waste another year with budget bullshit"
closed 6 deals w/ this lol
2021: it can’t even autocomplete a line
2022: it can’t even write a whole function
2023: it can’t even pass a coding interview
2024: it can’t even build an app
2025: it can’t even handle complex projects
2026: oh no
"What if I only have 30 minutes a week to exercise?"
30 minutes a week?!
My advice...
Spend it planning your escape from whatever god-awful prison you're currently living in.