David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH)

I try to look at life in this way that I've already been blessed with decades of economically viable, highly valuable ways of translating what I like best into

in the working world to write Ruby code, that that was so valuable that I could make millions and millions of dollars doing it.

And if that's over tomorrow, I shouldn't look at that with regret.

I should look at it with gratitude.

It's absolutely not enough.

Not if you want to learn.

Not if you want to become better at it.

If you just become a tap monkey, maybe you're productive in a second, but then you have to realize, well, can anyone just tap if that's all we're doing is just sitting around all day long tapping?

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

That's not a marketable skill.

Now,

I always preface this both to myself and when I speak to others about it, is rule number one, nobody fucking knows anything.

No one can predict even six months ahead.

Right now, we're probably at peak AI future hype because we see all the promise because so much of it is real.

And so many people have experienced it themselves, this mind-boggling thing that the silicon is...

thinking in some way that feels eerily reminiscent of humans.

I'd actually say the big thing for me wasn't even ChatGPT, wasn't even Claude, it was DeepSeek.

Running DeepSeek locally and seeing the think box where it converses with itself about how to formulate the response.

I almost wanted to think, is this a gimmick?

Is it doing this as a performance for my benefit, but that's not actually how it thinks?