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Posted by signa11 4 days ago

Grieving the loss of details(purplesyringa.moe)
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igl 9 hours ago|
I think part of the grief is losing the way we learned to do something we loved. Most people care about what software does, not how we made it. The hard part is accepting that what makes the job satisfying for us isn’t always what makes the result useful to others.
tamilini92 3 hours ago||
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dortesedixson 8 hours ago||
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theritik12ee1 5 hours ago||
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bumicodes 8 hours ago||
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simontwiggyahuk 7 hours ago||
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kphorn 8 hours ago||
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xerox13ster 8 hours ago|
This is about the loss of the opportunity to support oneself.

Offering hobbies, which require ppl to already be supporting themselves, is like a slap in the face.

This is like telling a coal miner that if they enjoyed the work they did in their career, they can go digging tunnels in chalk cliffs after renewable energy destroys the demand for coal.

vatsachak 6 hours ago||
LLMs are a multiplier. If the author is reading this,

You're freaking out over no big deal

delichon 9 hours ago|
It's great that she takes joy in his work, and sad that economics is pushing her to focus on different details with less joy. But the same can be said for a horse groom who loves her work being pushed to transition into a mechanic. Change sucks, but less than petrification.
xyzsparetimexyz 4 hours ago||
“A creature who has spent his life creating one particular representation of his selfdom will die rather than become the antithesis of that representation” ― Frank Herbert, Dune Messiah
combobyte 6 hours ago|||
"Petrification" still sucks less than enshittification. Most of the so-called progress from AI is making the world worse for the average person.
shadow28 8 hours ago||
The author is a woman, not sure why you assumed they identifed as he/him.
demilicious 8 hours ago||
Probably because there is no bio or name on this page and the author mentions their girlfriend. Seems an easy error to make