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Re:It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN by sph on Thursday April 27, 2023 @03:51AM (#35724638)
I could have written this myself. I'm currently going the scary "bootstrapped founder" route because at least the tool I'm paid to work on is something I care about and I can put a lot of my craftsmanship on.

But in general my long term goal is to go write mini Lisp interpreters in a cabin in the woods, and move away from the direction Big Tech is going.

I love computers, software, but I would not say I love technology anymore, nor I think that the Internet is a net benefit for humanity anymore. It's been quite hard to accept that my view of the tech world has turned upside down in no more than a couple years.

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Re:It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN by ElevenLathe on Thursday April 27, 2023 @01:43PM (#35731828)
"[writing] mini Lisp interpreters in a cabin in the woods" sounds wonderful!
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Re:It's not only you, there's an explosion of ChatGPT on HN by gspencley on Friday April 28, 2023 @09:04AM (#35740802)
Indeed!

Though when my wife and I have talked about "going off grid" and living remote, she wanted to understand my limits and asked about electricity.

I pointed out that electricity led to the discovery of logic gates, which led to integrated programmable circuits, which led to the Von Neumann Architecture, which led to Ethernet, which led to the Internet which led to Twitter.

It's a slippery slope!

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