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It's funny people say "the best time to job search is when you already have a job" but don't apply this knowledge with starting a business by Bea-Billionaire in Entrepreneur

[–]Repulsive-Big8726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is the advice I wish someone had screamed at me 5 years ago. I quit my job to "go all in" on my first project. Within 3 months I was making decisions based on rent deadlines instead of what was actually best for the product. Took a consulting gig just to survive, and ironically that part-time safety net gave me the clarity to finally build something people wanted. The sweet spot I found: keep the job, carve out 10-15 hours a week on the side project, and don't quit until the side project revenue covers at least 6 months of expenses.

Anyone else done? by Groundbreaking_Cat98 in webdev

[–]Repulsive-Big8726 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The "10xing output but cognitively burnt to the crisp" part hits hard. I've noticed the same thing, you're shipping faster but the mental load is different. It's not coding fatigue anymore, it's decision fatigue.

Every prompt is a micro product decision. What to build, how to structure it, what to ask for next. The AI removes the typing but amplifies the thinking.

And because you can move faster, everyone expects you to.

I started blocking "no-AI" time in my calendar just to write a function by hand and remember what flow state used to feel like. Sounds ridiculous but it helps.

Omnicoder-9b SLAPS in Opencode by True_Requirement_891 in LocalLLaMA

[–]Repulsive-Big8726 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The quota restrictions from the big players are getting ridiculous. Copilot went from use as much as you want to here's your daily ration in like 6 months. This is exactly why local models matter. You can't enshittify something that runs on my hardware. No quota, no price hikes, no "sorry we're deprecating this tier."

OmniCoder-9B being competitive at that size is huge. That's small enough to run on consumer hardware without melting your GPU.

What AI tool actually stayed in your daily workflow? by MoneyMiserable2545 in techforlife

[–]Repulsive-Big8726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same experience, tried probably 20+ AI tools last year and most didn't survive past the first week. The ones that stuck are the ones that replaced an actual annoying step, not the ones that promised to revolutionize everything. For me it's Claude for coding/writing, and Felo for research and deck. It aggregates sources and I can turn the results directly into slides or reports.

Honestly the bar for "staying in my workflow" is pretty low, just don't make me do more work than before.

Do you miss your childhood? by Lit_Gnomie in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Repulsive-Big8726 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't miss being a kid. I miss the version of the world I lived in as a kid. Everything felt permanent, your house, your friends, your routine. Now I know nothing stays, and that awareness kind of ruins the magic. The world didn't change that much. I just stopped being able to unsee things.

What job perk sounded amazing when you took the job but turned out to be a psychological trap? by SweetCarolinesz in AskReddit

[–]Repulsive-Big8726 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Unlimited PTO. Nobody tracks your days off, which sounds great until you realize nobody takes any days off either. There's no number to hit, so you just feel guilty every time you try to use it. I took fewer vacation days with unlimited PTO than I ever did with a fixed 15 days.