Finally being the Luddite. I’m a software engineer and have always done well by jumping on new technology and making it work. But my company is really pushing ai and as far as I can see, most people are just taking longer to do worse. I end up cleaning up their mess and of course that’s not something LLMs can do

For example instead of taking an hour to upgrade a dependency then investigate the test results, now you can spend half a day screwing with ai to accept its 5 minute change without looking at the tests.

Ans by the metrics, they completed the task in 5 minutes instead of an hour, and no mention about whether the tests still pass. And then they escalate to me to get it working

Even worse, I’m dreading layoffs for the first time in years. Not just because of the economy and policy chaos, not just because I lost my “sponsor”, but ai ….. not quite the way you expect though. Reviews are coming up and the people who screw around with ai instead of working have developed agents to go back through all of our online systems to present huge reports on their years activity. While I’m sure no one will read it, how can I compete with that?

Thinking a lot of new technologies are stupid and unnecessary. Of course, at least in big tech, lot of them objectively are.

Getting pissed at the noise kids make outside, playing.

Sorry, ima speed runner, so I sequence broke. I used the kidney failure glitch to get a bunch of old person achievements early, but now that I got the transplant achievement (and the cancer beaten one by doing this complicated trick of avoiding a specific virus almost no one has to get cancer from said virus via transplant) I'm back on some of the young people achievement farming.

Telling my son we need to go out. Its such a nice day, we can't spend in front of a screen...

Try to identify birds and trees. How did I go through life not being able to identify my natural surroundings?

flat out rejecting modern anything. I have zero desire to buy new phones, computers, new clothes, appliances etc... it's ALL junk designed to fail so I buy again.

I just don't now. I buy nothing and I don't care. subscriptions? get fuked. replacing anything that breaks? hell no.. I'll fix it instead.

I used to like companies, but I've learned they are all criminal scum, liars and thieves and deserve very special treatment. they pushed me over the edge and I will never return and never stop voicing my distrust and dislike for all of them. even in the stores themselves when I have to go buy food... I'm very vocal about how overly priced and absurd everything is to the point where people look at me... I want that, I want others to actively think about it especially when they are in the stores too.

I'm essentially done with 'society' whatever the hell that means

Didn't think I'd be telling my kids the TV is rotting their brains. Yeah, Looney Tunes wasn't educational in the least but at least the shorts had plotlines. Stuff my kids watch (mostly on YouTube) will transition between scenes within seconds and there's no point or resolution to any of it!

I went to my friend's kid's volleyball game. Those girls had on very short shorts that were tight and it made me feel super creepy and I didn't want to watch. I was trying to support my busy friends with kids, but I'll never do it again because "these young girls need to put on some clothes."

If I was their dad, I wouldn't let them out like that.

Me sitting in a restaurant right now at 3 pm eating dinner: Can't think of anything

I fall asleep at every holiday party. My grandpa used to do that shit. Now... I'm tired and I don't want to deal with anyone's bullshit. Wake me when it's time to say goodbye.

I don't give a single shit what people think about me anymore.

And it stems from the constantly-reinforced experience that people almost always have no idea what they're talking about.

For now, I've at least retained a basic level of decorum, but the line is blurring in a way that has me a bit frightened to be honest. Throw in some neurological degeneration and I totally understand why old people act like lunatics in public

While on a road trip if it's raining hard or the weather is otherwise bad, I have to turn my music down or off so I can see better.

I cackled the first time I read about something like that but now I'm that person 🫠

Also had an 8:30 bedtime for at least 10 years. I'll be 40 next year.

Last night I went to a show with my college kid. I complained that it was getting late…. The show ended at 7:30

Looking at young people and having sad thoughts about their future - feeling we owe them something I can't give them.

Random noises when getting up from sitting.

Not want to leave the house after 9-10 PM

Eat better

Prefer getting my clothes from Costco

Get excited about new appliances okay nevermind I actually got a blender as a teenager and loved it that doesn’t count.

But still it’s funny how much of a stereotype we all become in some small ways.

Using one of those "days of the week" plastic pill containers. Also, getting impatient for my urine stream to complete.

A good Saturday afternoon for me is driving to a nearby beach via a chippy, and just sitting in the car watching the world go by, and remarking with my partner on all the Very Good Dogs we see while we eat chips.

It's pretty much one of my favourite things to do.

How excited I am about buying a new frying pan.

Telling people younger than me not to worry about things. Like even coworkers I only have like a decade on. No you sweet little child that's for us adults to deal with please wait off to the side and observe while I handle this bullshit.

I became a "morning person". Or let me rephrase that, I honestly stopped believing in the idea of morning or evening people. Whatever schedule you hold you body to, it tends to be okay with it as long as you're consistent. And bonus points if it generally aligns with normal daytime. I still tend to drift a bit later during long holidays, but I can live with earlier mornings and tend to have my alarm in the same time no matter the day if the week. Unless I had a party or something.

Also, I also became very nostalgic. The music I listened to when I was a teen remains my favourite, and I've become very sceptical of newer trends. Back in "my day" everything was better lol.

And lastly, I finally get why my parents have barely any hobbies and instead just sit around or meet up with people. When I was young I always wondered why adults didn't seem to care about learning new things. How their knowledge of subjects like math, biology, geography ,and physics had degraded after highschool. You come home after work and are tired. You need the weekend to recharge. I've already started working less (36 hours per week) and also have 36 days off in a year, which is extremely luxurious, yet I still managed to work myself into a burn-out. Unlike my parents' generation, I feel like we grew up with an expectation to be more than your work. People my age (me definitely included) seem to care so much about the hobbies. Your side projects, programming, photography, art, music, sports, etc. It defines who I am, yet I have way to little time and energy for it next to being a cog in the machine.

Sneeze really loudly.

Waking up early on weekends. I gotta be up early for work on weekdays and its easier to stick to a consistent schedule.

I'm in my 30s and still feel pretty close to when I was 16-18 just more tempered.

Still a night person, still like games, still like technology. Idk I guess I'm not old enough yet lmao

When seeing a kid/now-adult I haven’t seen in 20 years, “Omg, I remember when you were this big!” When I was a kid this always made me feel weird. Like, I don’t know you, stranger. Idk why I can’t seem to stop myself!

Walks. Like just for sunshine and air. It used to be I was out on a bike from sun up till sun down. You'd see the old people just walking and enjoying life and think damn, I'll never be that lame. Well here I am. No bike. Just my legs. They weren't lame. I was a dumb teenager. Walks are awesome.

Early to bed. I try to stay up until at least 9pm so I don't wake up at 3am.

A coffee and a crossword puzzle is really all it takes to make a great morning these days.

Today I learned how much I haven't matured in 30 years.

Didn't really like how my Dad would come home, kind of glower at us, gobble up his dinner and fuck off to bed. Now here I am doing the same thing.

I started to pickle things and make basicly all in my kitchen myself.

I've never had much of a taste for classical music. A year ago I started playing it in the background while doing other things. Some of it is truly amazing and I wish I had started listening to it years ago.

Biggest thing is probably the switchover from night owl to morning person. I mean, I'm using morning person loosely as I still hate getting up. It's just that by 9:30 at night I'm drowsy and by 6:30 a.m. I've already been laying in bed for 45 minutes trying to fall back to sleep and now I'm so bored I get up just for the sake of getting up.

Also, weirdly vacuuming. It's a daily thing these days. Used to hate it.

Wear reading glasses glasses. I never had to wear anything until the last month. Noticed I was struggling to read an old textbook. Someone handed me their readers. Wow... I've been missing out

Pill box... I have take enough pills that it helps to have a pill box to organize them. Not just any pill box, mine has separate compartments for morning and night pills.

I'm 55. Sigh...