I know the reason you keep coming here. I would too. Where else can you find unfiltered thoughts of someone you've known so intimately for maybe a decade at this point.
I'm not trying to be accusatory, or grand-standing, I'm just bad at intros to blog posts.
Lately I've been spending a lot of my time with these AI Agents, and wow, they truly are impressive. You really can just start building things. Though every week, I notice that I have more tools, more patterns, and more things that could be built, without any real purpose.
Building things for fun is definitely an enjoyable hobby. A lot of the time I buy Gundam gunpla models just cuz it's fun to put them together. But I think I am reaching a point where building software solutions to problems that don't really exist is starting to lose its novelty.
The creative stuff is fun. Fun to build, fun to show off. Note to self: go further in that endeavor. It's more fulfilling than building a robust, scalable, fault-tolerant backend.
I'm kinda in a good place right now. I have diabetes. Now you may think this is not a good thing, but in fact it is a good thing. They've given me the fat shot drug, Mounjaro, for free-99 because I have diabetes. And I've been trying to lose a good 15-20 lbs for the past 3-4 years now. Stuff seems to be working but I think we're only on day 2.
It's actually really cathartic typing things out or rather, expressing myself however I feel like it. You really can just do things. Sorry, the AI ads are just built different. Literally.
This was a spontaneous post because I haven't said anything in a hot minute, but I'll try to think of some topics that aren't as mundane as this.
I dunno if I used this quote or not, but what's wrong with recycling anyways.
audentes Fortuna iuvat ~Virgil