Just regret waiting until I was 35 to attempt it and now I'm already going on 40. Wasted good years on easy mode.

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But this part is wild to me: "I use AI for some things. It helped me fix a few bugs a couple of times"

I can't imagine being solo indie and not leaning hard into Codex, CC, or Composer at this point. To use it only sometimes for the rare bug or copy editing sounds tragic. It's been an incredible boon for me at least - extending, refactoring, prototyping etc. within a complex codebase I wrote myself and in new ones that I guide it on.

> It’s especially bad with new APIs.

It's great if you give it the context

It seems like these people don't paste in the API documentation and say, " based on the document... ". Did I just reveal too much?

Haha, same