I don’t know if we should laugh or cry

That's why we planted a tree in the game.

Isn't that true of all games, and even for comments on this website? Sorry if I am just missing the sarcasm.

Yes, sarcasm was strong

Are you the kind of guy that says that all things that serve no purpose except for entertainment should be banned?

I am of the opposite school. I think practical things are fine and dandy, but the things that make us human, make life worth living, are all "useless".

No.

Oil

Going to short OpenAI after hearing this.

You can't short OpenAI because it's a private company, also don't.

/s he is my friend

Take out your retirement early. Live on it for 5 years and then back to the grind for 5. Live your best life and die with zero not a million.

In that 5 years your industry would have left you behind :( unfortunately. Unless you do the type of job that allows this style of living but afaik, it's not tech.

I don't know. I just had a break for approx 3 years with very limited access to the internet. Absolutely nothing has changed. AI is now useful, but it doesn't operate differently than before.

Did you successfully get a job? That's the only metric that matters.

That was great advice for the '00s and '10s but is absolutely insane advice in 2026.

This is llm hallucination too? Old ideas and goes back to a system that was in place in the 1800’s. It didn’t go well. Who are these people that peddle this every 20-30 years or so? Opportunist.

I found a different benefit to micro services — AI understands them and context matters. Monolithic app confuse ai where micro services enables them to be far more effective.

It's an interesting question how AI influences this. If it scales up the scope of what an individual engineer can do, and if the primary driver of microservice scope is Conway's law, then in theory microservices should get "fatter".

However I go the other way than you: I have found AI needs as much context as possible and that means it understands monoliths (or fatter architectures) better. At least, the agentic style approach where it has access to the whole git tree / source repository. I find things break down a lot when changes are needed across source repositories.

That's a benefit for monoliths, then.

Just waiting on a steam pass and I’ll never buy a console again.

Read this as to dominate mobile OSes, and thought that’s a different Linux attitude