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https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1rr247v/being_a_developer_in_2026/

@integral What practices led to that permanent state? Do you still have it?

[3/30] ✅ What I did: No relapses => oh man, the whole day was filled with triggers, but didn't act on them 18m meditation => felt aggitated in the end and stopped 6m pranayamas => starting slow, have to make sure the technique is correct first 1.5h reading Caloric deficit What I didn't do: Study => I had lots of work to do and haven't found time for studying Okay, now the 4th day, it's been going fine so far.

I loved Mirrors Edge, the first one though, haven't played the second one. This was like a soundtrack for some part of my childhood I played it so much lol. Is sequel also good?

"Humans are gradually becoming less involved in the loop of recursive self-improvement. It's not fully automated, it may be end of this year, but not later than next year" - Elon Musk Bullshit hype continues? Or there is something happening that we're not aware of. Probably not.

You saw the aliens?

@cistanche_enjoyer How would you define a "real" friendship? For me, it depends. Sometimes when I just want to socialize and have fun, I don't seek out friends with whom I'd have philosophical discussions. When I want to talk about something deeper or share my own stuggles or hardships, there are 1-2 friends that I'd go to. Is the second one more real than the first one? I don't know.

But you have to start somewhere, right? People have different degrees of interest in truth seeking, and when you explicate to yourself that truth seeking is something you want to do, the motivations might not be pure initially, but the more you do it, year after year, it gets more clear if you do it right. I think nobody starts this journey with 100% pure intention, it gets developed over time. Along the way you discover all the shit you hide from yourself, even your egotistical motivations behind truth seeking, and that's part of the path, isn't it?

@Leo Gura Did you do more trips than Martin Ball? It's also interesting if he experienced some health side-effects since he has done lots of that stuff.

The hardest desicions was forced upon me that I had to just accept the reality of them and move on. One of those was when I was forced to provide for my family financially in my early 20s due to my father's unsuccessful business and huge depth, but it grew and matured me a lot earlier in life. Another one was unexpected death of my father, which happened just the time I was accepting him fully, forgiving him and was developing a more loving father-son relationship. He was pretty young, 54 years old, I was in my late 20s. I was forced to accept the fact that it was over, Another one was a breakup, as for many of you. It was one of the bitter emotions that I had felt in my life. It was awful. It was a choice that I was hesitating making but the other side put a nail on the coffin, and forced my decision. I'm sure I'll be having lots like these in the future to come, and I'm greateful for the old hard experiences that taught me very valuable lessons.

Lol. Come on.

[2/30] ✅ What I did: No relapses 20m meditation 10m pranayamas 1h reading 30m run Caloric deficit What I didn't do: Study Okay, still going okay, again study was skipped because I postponed it till late evening and then I was too lazy and sleepy / tired to do it. I'll try to do it in the morning before work, let's see how it goes.

Take your time, it's a lifelong journey. Yes Arlond is one of the healthier examples of masculinity for sure. I also like that book. You can check David Deida's work for a healthy masculine perspective, also has some spiritual component in it. Also do your research and share with us what you find 😉 Maybe there are some books that's not as popular as Deida's but better.

@Leo Gura It's not that AI does software for you, it's that you use AI to assist you in building software more rapidly than you could solo. And that causes distress in many developers because before agentic coding assistence you had a feeling that you owned what you wrote because it was all generated by you, it was all done through struggle and hard-earned experience. Now even if 30% (it's much more then that) of the code is assisted by LLM model, you end up feeling emotionally detached from the work you do, and it's different in nature from the way you worked before. Maybe it just needs getting used to. There aren't any serious software thats made with AI, but all the software today is being made with AI's assistence. Even if you ask ChatGPT to help you with fixing error, thats AI assistence, it doesnt mean that AI does the software.

That 10x thing is a clickbait, but it is a fact that computer programming field is being changed pretty rapidly that affect daily job of developers so much that it causes existential questioning and meaning crisis, and it will continue to do so going forwards. No other field is being changed this much due to LLMs and agents. This was the easiest to affect due to the nature of a job and its relation to what an LLM does. I'm not saying it will cause insane productivity gains or it will replace anyone. I'm trying to see what's actually happening.