I know what you're thinking.
How long will this take?
When will it end?
A literal bioweapon is destroying brains around you.
Focus on avoiding infection for another year, then re-evaluate.
WaPo reporter on violent "settlers" (aka terrorists): "I don't know how a father or mother can raise such monsters. Truly, and with all honesty. I can't understand how parents can raise individuals with such savagery. They're not even human."
When you walk in a European museum you realise how much religion consumed European life. This is not true of China, India, Africa or, perhaps surprisingly to some, even Islam. And that of course is why modernity started in Europe. It was in Europe that religion was felt as an unbearable yoke
Everything you do for an hour per day, ask yourself: when I am at the end of my life, will I regret having spent 5 years doing this? Because that's what you'll have done. 1 hour per day is about 6% of your waking life. About 5 years. Half a decade. Use that time intentionally.
Fun fact.
Mario Puzo, author of The Godfather, had no screenwriting experience.
After winning two Oscars, he bought a screenwriting book to learn how, which recommended 'Study The Godfather'.
The last time building software sped up ~10x (early 2000s, the agile movement), a massive interest in automated testing followed almost immediately (unit tests, TDD, XP etc)
Today, building software sped up 10x, easily: and a similar massive interest in automated testing + verification is following...
It takes a while to build the confidence, but there's no future where you're manually reviewing every line of agent code. Not much acceleration in that. You need adversarial agent reviews, you need automated testing, and maybe you spot check. That's it. From prompt to production!