Struggling with mental health and building a philosophy to cope. The site is fragments of that philosophy drifting through space. Click one, it expands. Some are abstract, some are very personal. They're mixed together, undistinguished. The form is the content; ideas moving, fading, discovered by attention rather than presented. I built it because I needed to articulate something for myself....
I've had great success coding infra (terraform). It at least 10x the generation of easily verifiable and tedious to write code. Results were audited to death as the client was highly regulated.
Professional feature dev is hit and miss for sure, although getting better and better. We're nowhere near full agentic coding. However, by reinvesting the speed gains from not writing boilerplate into devex and tests/security, I bring to life much better quality software, maintainable and a boy to work with.
I suddenly have the homelab of my dreams, all the ideas previously in the "too long to execute" category now get vibe coded while watching TV or doing other stuff.
As an old jaded engineer, everything code was getting a bit boring and repetitive (so many rest APIs). I guess you get the most value out of it when you know exactly what you want.
Most importantly though, and I've heard this from a few other seniors: I've found joy in making cool fun things with tech again. I like that new way of creating stuff at the speed of thought, and I guess for me that counts as "it works"
The weird part isn't that it works. The weird part is how boring it's become.
When engineers can talk directly to customers, when support understands the product, when sales knows what's actually possible, suddenly half the middle management layer has nothing to do.