Investing in 1999:
- Get stock tips from a Yahoo chat room
- Buy anything with .com in the name
- Believe the analyst on CNBC
- Blow up by 2002
Investing in 2026:
- Get stock tips from a guy called ApeTrader_69
- Buy anything with AI in the name
- Believe the thread with 40K likes
- Do it again tomorrow
@systematicls For me it was/is an hobby and passion. No passion at all using codex etc. I wrote my first C more than 20 years ago and that sparked something and it still does when I write something really nice. I use AI now for most tasks but I don’t ship something I don’t understand etc