I Am Retiring from Tech to Live Offline

kamaitachi 3 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I just retired after 40 years writing code.

The last year or so wasn’t fun - battling with AI, trying to get it do what I wanted.

For a long time, I thought I’d do a lot of hobby or open source coding when I retired.

I haven’t even tried. I’m not burned out, but find I’ve lost the passion for coding I once had.

Is that AI? Or is it me?

Maybe as my retirement progresses, I can rekindle that passion, but as of now, I don’t miss tech.

Sorry, got to go - my garden needs me :-)

	▲	CuriouslyC a minute ago \| parent [-]
		It's not AI or you, it's this late stage capitalist marketing firehose of bullshit and enforced productivity. Hype is out of control, nothing is real, it's exhausting.

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elliotbnvl 4 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This resonates with me as well. For more reasons than one: with the rise of AI (Mythos is but a pale forerunner) digital security — and by extension, digital privacy — has ceased to exist. The bomber will always win. The only way to win is not to play.

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narrator a few seconds ago | parent | prev | next [-]

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mrmarket 18 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

thank you for this. what a sacred journey you're embarking on. i hope to follow you - talking with a close friend now about becoming an elevator mechanic. my wife is pregnant so i have to find a profession that comes reasonably close to tech salaries. i've been writing poetry by hand. i think the world you envision is possible, and closer.

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karmakurtisaani 3 minutes ago | parent [-]

> my wife is pregnant

You're just about to become much more dependent on a stable income.

> i have to find a profession that comes reasonably close to tech salaries. i've been writing poetry by hand.

These two sentences are completely independent of each other.

Sorry to be a downer, but once you have kids shit gets real and room for idealism shrinks fast.

	▲	mrmarket a few seconds ago \| parent [-]
		> you're just about to become much more dependent on a stable income would you consider the 2026 SaaS market stable? Very naive take. > These two sentences are completely independent of each other. Yeah? They are two separate thoughts. They are just next to each other. The profession that comes close to tech salaries is elevator mechanic. The poetry is for my heart, which is related to this guy's post, in which he talks about leaving tech for the sake of his heart. Not only are you a downer, but you have a highly unusual approach to parsing information.

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ismaelyws 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Been thinking the same lately…

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sublinear 5 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

Text inside images is not a11y. That's a paddlin'.

I jest, but not really. There were already a ton of reasons tech might burn someone out and AI was the cherry on top.