We are in a golden age where, if you are good at systems and understanding, AI increases your abilities by an order of magnitude. But if you are not good at it, you just spin your wheels and end up nowhere helpful
getting your vps mining monero was not on my wishlist lmao. i know its my fault not disabling password root access but damn what they bout to do with a poor 1 vcpu 2gb ram
i did the former. i fixed bugs that annoyed me directly. it had huge, huge impact on cost and perf. i like getting instant reward. i am very good at small incremental steps. but, i hope to learn how to do the latter more through the rest of my career!
There’s a lot of alpha in putting your ego aside by being willing to be cringe, willing to fail in public, willing to ask for what you want and face rejection, etc.