How long have you been working in this field? I ask as if you have numerous years you already know your worth and value irrespective of AI or any other system. If you are still questioning this it indicates to me that you are still in the process of finding yourself and are in the same boat many other folks are in - confronting the existencial crisis of identity as it pertains to work. I suggest do what is necessary to stay employed then on your own time write code by hand for personal or side projects. Be sure to not use AI and learn deployment, devops and infrastructure as much as is needed to be knowledgeable and able to speak to the technology. Then add that to your resume. Keep grinding.
I'm currently a programmer with 8 years of experience(I've been coding for longer than that, but I started earning money from programming around then.). Some might say that's still short, but honestly, I'm not sure. I became a programmer during the COVID-19 hiring boom, and somehow I've managed to survive. But I'm not really sure what I should be doing next.
What you should be doing next is to pivot your programming skills plus interest in identifying "categorical errors" to help me look for elephants in the room housing all the different "categorical imperatives" :) as a hobby even.
Because my not very adult hunch is that co-existence with one another and nature depends on paying attention to these animals
>Our world relies on outsourcing the production of manufactured and consumer goods to developing
nations. But separate from that structural reality, vested interests refusing to acknowledge their faults is an entirely different issue.
[faults= giant problems with deeply held but actionable beliefs]
There seems to be already two different instances of CI in that quote...
To extend/detail on the second one, make it relevant to this website---
What if AI helps to make it easy for "everyone" to build things people want? That doesn't bode well for the climate. If I were one of the local gods I'd rationalise (ie sidestep CI) that by saying that hardware is so hard that maybe only 1% of the population in developed countries would be able attain this kind of (post-)industrial upper middle class [0]
[I tend to see categorical imperatives as a the general way to obtain constraints on action local in spacetime by extrapolating to extreme hypotheticals, more physicist than "edge cases". This is one understated belief that (I feel) silicon valley thought leaders tend to subconsciously share with economists, neuroscientists[1], psychologists, techbros, journalists, rationalists---- but not Wall Street---- the sanity of linear utility. 2]
[1] if this come across as a collective but ad hominem, I'm hoping it still looks like a reasonable one ;) anyways i probably damaged my credibility by submitting a neuroscience scam that time (not related to, but reminiscent of Parasma)
[2] I'd even say that you can't renormalise linear utility, just like one "would not be able to renormalise some Hamiltonians" so the reflexive rationalisation [0] fails, if you care to go there
yes I'm using Fable to inspect, generate plan and architectural docs then using Gemini to implement then have Fable review, find bugs. saving lots of usage.
Interesting idea. Would need new laws enacted and government oversight which I'm not sure how people feel about that especially for minors. Maybe there will come a time where all people (in the US or otherwise) have some form of government document that uniquely identifies them (a trusted identity platform not just an ID) though there is and will be lots of pushback. A simple search revealed this: "The implementation of universal government ID systems, particularly digital IDs, is frequently criticized as a key component of a dystopian surveillance state. Critics warn that such systems can lead to mass surveillance, restriction of freedom of movement, and control over personal, financial, and medical lives." So take it for what you will. Can we do this? Yes. Will we is another matter.
The UI is slick nicely done. Currently refreshing gives new batch of movies. Maybe when login they don't change or that's a feature not a bug? I like that it surfaces lots of movies I would have never even considered.
Having used Claude Code at work and for personal projects these past 8 months, I can see the attraction to keep going till your session cap is hit. I've used Claude for professional work coding, unit testing, personal projects in languages I haven't learned; completed work I had on the back burner for a number of years. I learned early on to take time for myself and this is no different. One must get out and run, swim, bike, weights, whatever but get your mind out of the computer and work and do some human necessary things besides just eating, pooping and sleeping. We need time to bond with our loved ones, parents, siblings and yes even coworkers. Until we as individuals take that time and leave the obsession (for a while), yes we will spend more and more time getting things done with AI. It's like any addiction. The dopamine hit is very powerful and we do need to reset our mind and rest and form long term memories as well as what my mom always said (take time to smell the roses).
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Really resonates — and you've identified something important. The personal discipline piece is real. What our data is showing though is there's also an organisational layer on top of it. AI pressure to do more has emerged as a top 4 burnout driver in 2026 — engineers aren't just choosing to keep going, many are feeling the expectation from managers that AI tools mean they should ship more. The dopamine loop you describe and the external expectation compound each other. It's hard to step away when the system around you treats your AI-assisted velocity as the new baseline.
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We shipped software in the late 90’s with a hasp protection key required for use to prevent copying. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_protection_dongle part of the process was to run a hasp obfuscation exe against our newly compiled exe. It was most likely an encryption algorithm that had the key on the hardware dongle. This exe is what was put in the resulting floppy disks and burned onto cd’s for distribution. I fielded many calls regarding issues with this but it worked and kept the software limited (it was a niche market). I can see something like this foiling any LLM inspection of the resulting binary as the binary has been drastically modified from its original. What’s old is new again.
Ok I have to ask you are you in it for the paycheck or the passion? How you answer determines your path. If a paycheck optimize for the largest salary you can conceivably obtain based on your ability and education. If passion follow your passion, get educated and eventually you will find some work in your field. The passion is contagious and will positively affect your life in ways you can't even imagine at your age currently (self satisfaction plays a lot into child rearing). Notice I didn't say money. The day I stop learning is the day I die. My advice, don't stop learning.
Sounds cool. Do you have any requirements other than what you outlined above such as any grammar examples? Reading this brought me back to my compiler days at uni. We used Oberon and had to create a compiler. It was quite the process! I remember abstract syntax trees that held the program and as we proceeded through the compilation steps that ast was passed around and inspected for all steps. This I found helpful: https://dev.to/villyp/how-to-build-a-compiler-a-step-by-step...
