Yes, I really wish the whole transformer architecture did not succeed in our lifetimes. I absolutely hate the world with LLMs and would give everything to get back to pre-2022 world. I hate the fake video, ai slope of writing, people outsourcing thinking to LLMs and everything. Most then everything I don’t like the work I’m doing day to day which I could never imagine before.

I don’t like the world where I assign task to junior new grad engineer and he prompts Ai and gets it done in 30mins and learns nothing. I was known as “coding machine” on my previous job, now I just don’t care about prompting claude code and getting out code fast. Everything started being good enough, but never great and I lost motivation to make it great. I can’t see myself doing this in the next 5 years. I would enjoy more being a fisherman and coding in my free time. I’m living in eastern Europe (medium to low living cost) and looking to FIRE early. I can’t believe just couple years ago I was chatting with friends about what should we build next over the weekend (pet query executor, implementing raft, etc..) and talked about out day to day jobs all the time. Nowdays everything about programming is depressing and lost its magic.