That’s cool. Unfortunately, today, sobriety doesn’t guarantee that AI companies won’t kill off what’s left of your career (which somewhat weakens the incentives to do so). But congrats!

▲ irishcoffee 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Have an upvote. Sobriety is an expectation. I will say though that people I’ve known who went through the journey are some of the smarter people I’ve met. Not all of them, but the whole numbing yourself because your brain can’t quite understand all the thoughts it has, that’s a real thing. Probably sounds insane, but it’s real.

▲ gavinray 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

  > sobriety doesn’t guarantee that AI companies won’t kill off what’s left of your career

You're being downvoted, but I'd be lying if I said I don't see that as a distinct (and logical) possibility.

The ironic thing is, I work for one of those "AI Companies" ;^)

Claude Code and Codex have done most of my work for the last year, and with the pace of AI improvement, I'm not sure that you'd need (or even want) me in the mix.

From a business perspective, it makes a lot of financial sense, too.

I'm sure it's a limited amount of time before I'm dead weight, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, and I'll figure something out if/when it happens =)

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Nuzzerino 6 hours ago | parent [-]

My lived experience doesn’t care what the downvotes say (many here are privileged, after all), and it is only a matter of time imo unless something is done about the industry to change course.

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girvo 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> unless something is done about the industry to change course

There will be no change of course, sadly.

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himata4113 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I see karma as form of a currency to afford getting downvoted. I actually don't mind the downvotes especially when it's followed by a comment on why. Helps me see parts I've missed.

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tux3 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I wouldn't internalize that idea too much. In a lot of countries traffic fines are a fixed amount, so some people feel like they don't have to respect traffic rules since they can afford to just pay the fine.

It's one way to process the negative feeling of being fined. But it doesn't really make the roads safer.

	▲	himata4113 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Goes both ways, if you're afraid of getting downvoted you might never find out that people actually agree with you, same goes with traffic tickets sometimes they don't make sense especially related to parking in crowded cities and ebikes, as long as you're not an asshole about it it's fine.

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incompatible an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I find the downvotes excessive for this kind of thing. They are basically a censorship mechanism, enough downvotes and a comment will basically disappear. I've used it about twice since I got the ability several years ago, and both times it was somebody promoting a Trump-related conspiracy theory.