personal, programming
Aside from generally feeling miserable about the software industry and who it serves, I've also been struggling with a lot of programming just being... *boring*.
Like, this is definitely the ADHD brain talking, but a lot of new software development is just the wrong kind of routine work for me. It's not novel and it's also not caring for something that people already use and rely on. And I understand programming too well to still find much enjoyment in it.
So I've been needing something novel, something I don't understand yet and which I can work on in an exploratory way, where I *don't* know where I'll end up yet. And I think I've found it? It seems like (inclusive) malleable software fits the bill - it's both exploratory and practically useful.
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And like, I would also be fine with maintenance work on something open-source that's already useful, but it's surprisingly hard to find a project that fits the bill there?
Like, I'd want to work *with* someone, without a hard scheduling commitment (because ADHD), using tools that I am comfortable (even if not familiar) with, which mostly means non-monolithic JS, and be confident that the project doesn't veer off to something miserable like "AI" or cryptocurrency.
And those constraints filter down the available options way more than they should, honestly.
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Loosely related, LLMs have murdered the viability of several of my ongoing projects, so that probably hasn't helped my enjoyment of programming either.
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@joepie91 I feel like LLMs destroyed my love of programming, and it feels hard to rebuild that when it was built on curiosity and desire to help people, something that seems completely at odds with what software has become.