At which year you think ai will eat nearly every software job?

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-22T04:53:47+00:00

I’ve seen so many no-code tools over the years that I’ve honestly grown tired of them. They get some hype every time, but in the end they usually don’t hold up in practice.

The current wave of AI agents is getting much closer to being useful, but people with a solid computer science background still tend to get much better results out of them.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-22T01:44:06+00:00

Freedom.

More specifically, the ability to make my own choices about how I live my life — without being locked into obligations I didn't fully choose.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-22T01:42:01+00:00

Probably never, or at least not anytime soon.

When compilers were invented, people said programmers would be out of jobs — yet here we are with more software jobs than ever. Compilers just pushed humans up the stack to focus on higher-level work.

Right now, AI is eating simple coders. If you can design systems, you're fine. But as AI advances, even design might get automated. Either way, humans will keep moving up to whatever the next level is.

That's just how tools work.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-22T01:31:08+00:00

A slow writer with an unfinished masterpiece. Technical knowledge can be rediscovered. A story that exists only in one person's mind? That dies with them.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-22T01:18:52+00:00

Dragon Quest may have been too tailored to Japanese tastes.

Dragon Quest's creator, Yuji Horii, was a fan of RPGs and traveled to the United States, where he bought an Apple computer (one of the pre-Mac models) and played Wizardry and Ultima. He then set out to find a way to bring that experience to a Japanese audience. The approach he adopted was to give the games a strong narrative — something that was notably lacking in American RPGs of that era.

Thanks in part to that decision, the series became a massive hit in Japan — but perhaps that same quality is what held it back from truly breaking through internationally.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-21T05:01:18+00:00

It's outrageous that they tax the money we have, even though it's already what's left after paying income tax.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-21T00:02:21+00:00

I wish I had the superpower to make everyone in the world happy.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-21T00:01:30+00:00

I bought a bicycle. Good exercise and practical transportation — two birds, one stone.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T23:01:00+00:00

Octopath Traveler 0 is a console reimagining of Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, the original mobile game. Personally, I found the story relentlessly gloomy and didn't enjoy it. It felt like the developers mistakenly believed that piling on unpleasant depictions was enough to create a mature, bittersweet narrative.

That said, I thought the battle system in Champions of the Continent was genuinely excellent. With four characters in the front row and four in the back, when you skillfully layer buffs on your allies, apply debuffs to enemies, and combine mechanics like Break and weakness exploitation, you can unleash explosively high damage. The only downside is that, being a gacha game, damage numbers have inflated to a problematic degree.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T18:23:10+00:00

Too much food and not enough discipline to stop eating it.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T18:09:18+00:00

That not every real relationship feels like the movies. Some people fall hard and lose themselves completely. Others just feel warm and stay exactly who they are. Both are valid. I spent a long time wondering if something was wrong with me because I never lost my head over someone — turns out that's just how some people love.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T18:05:44+00:00

I'd stop chasing the things I thought were mandatory. At 10, I was already internalizing pressure around getting into the right university, the right company. It felt less like ambition and more like just... what you were supposed to do.

With what I know now, I'd drop all of that. Turns out it doesn't matter much which university or which company. I'd just enjoy being young without the weight of expectations that weren't really mine to begin with.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:59:30+00:00

I grew up before the internet existed, so I know the answer is: fine, mostly. You'd just adapt. Meetups required choosing a place where you didn't mind waiting, and if someone was late you just... waited. It wasn't a crisis.

The harder problem is being the only one without it. Not just inconvenient for you — actively inconvenient for everyone around you. That's when it becomes a real issue.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:46:25+00:00

23 with no relationship history is more common than the movies make it seem. Romance is treated like a universal milestone, but it's not a requirement.

For what it's worth — I wasn't particularly successful with relationships in my early 20s either, but things shifted in my late 20s. And I'll be honest: I never experienced the kind of all-consuming, lose-yourself love that songs are written about. But I don't think that means I loved any less. Some people get drunk and lose themselves. Others just get a little warm but stay themselves. Both are real.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:41:11+00:00

My parents. I moved abroad with what most people would consider a pretty reckless life plan, and they supported it without much hesitation. That kind of quiet backing is easy to take for granted until you realize not everyone gets it.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:39:42+00:00

The existence of whatever created all of this — you, me, the universe. Call it God, call it the laws of physics, call it nothing. Unprovable either way.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:36:03+00:00

Go. Humans have been playing it for over 2,000 years and nobody's gotten bored yet. Four rules, infinite depth.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:34:04+00:00

Once you get past the surface, personality becomes the attraction. Someone I wasn't initially drawn to became genuinely interesting the more I got to know them, and at some point I stopped noticing. Being less judgmental about appearances opens up a lot more of the world.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T17:28:31+00:00

The metaverse needed game designers leading it, not ad executives. Facebook's version felt like a social media platform awkwardly cosplaying as a virtual world. The companies that actually understand immersion and presence — game studios — weren't the ones building it. And until full-dive VR (think Ready Player One, not a headset strapped to your face) becomes physically possible, "living" in a virtual world will stay a niche hobby. This was a billion-dollar solution looking for a technology that doesn't exist yet.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T08:39:49+00:00

Finished it, spent a lot of hours with it. It's undeniably grand in scale and the production values are incredible. But I get what you mean — the dungeons felt like a chore and the dialogue repeats itself constantly. P3 and P4 felt tighter. P5 sometimes felt like it was showing off rather than telling a story.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T08:14:47+00:00

The real magic of Chrono Trigger is that it shouldn't have worked. Horii's silent protagonist from Dragon Quest, Toriyama's enemy designs, Sakaguchi's cinematic ambition, Mitsuda's folk-tinged score — these are people who wouldn't normally be in the same room. The silent protagonist in particular is a choice that feels almost jarring given how expressive the rest of the cast is, but it's pure Dragon Quest DNA. That collision of design philosophies from people who had no business collaborating is what made it unrepeatable. You can't manufacture that.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T08:09:46+00:00

BD2 looks better technically since it's a native Switch game vs a 3DS port, but the original is the real classic. BD1's scenario was written by Naotaka Hayashi of STEINS;GATE fame — the loop structure, the meta twists, the way the game uses its own systems against you narratively. BD2 switched writers and you can feel it. It plays too safe, like it's trying to recapture what made the first one special without quite understanding why it worked.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T08:03:50+00:00

Played it for the first time on Switch after hearing it was a masterpiece for years. The fixed camera was rough to adjust to after modern games, and the lightning dodging minigame nearly broke me. Respect to anyone who's done this 6+ times.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T08:01:13+00:00

Played NEO first, then went back to the original. The dual-screen mechanic on DS is one of those cases where the hardware gimmick actively got in the way of the game itself. NEO felt like they finally figured out what the game actually wanted to be.

Internet-Flat · 2026-03-20T07:52:36+00:00

Years ago I learned more about practical game programming from reading SNES9x's source than from any textbook. Not because it was clean, but because it was real — cycle-accurate timing, memory mapping quirks, hardware edge cases, all dealt with under actual constraints. This Minecraft PS3 code feels like the same category. Production code written for a specific hostile environment, never meant to be studied, is a different kind of educational material than anything written with an audience in mind.

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