i miss the person i was before ai tools and side projects

LLMs 1.7K points 99 comments 2 months ago

had a completely normal saturday planned until claude hit the daily limit and suddenly i remembered i have hobbies, sunlight, and people who know me outside github commits. told myself i'd take a break. opened cursor 20 minutes later to "just check one thing." one thing became a feature. feature needed a landing page. piped it through runable, got the landing page and docs done in like 20 minutes, which was great except now the product felt real enough to keep building. ai tools were supposed to save time. somehow it's 2:14am, i'm shipping a side project no one asked for, eating dry maggi in front of a terminal that's been glowing since noon. the tools made everything faster. so now i just do more of it. SEND HELP. OR MAGGI. PREFERABLY BOTH.

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