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   The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 20:56:20 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

   I enter 2025 with something of a crisis in faith about tech. I’m a programmer, but I never did this because I enjoy programming, particularly. It’s a means to an end, a tool for what I *actually* care about: creating the thing I want to exist. Many programmers I know are quite happy so long as they get to write code, regardless of what the end result is, but I’ve never been satisfied with that. And right now tech seems to be at a nadir, existing more as a financial instrument than an enabler

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     The Seven Voyages Of Steve (sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 21:03:36 JST The Seven Voyages Of Steve

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     I’m extremely fortunate that for the moment I can just ignore all this nonsense and work on what I want, so I can’t really complain. But it does still have a subtle demotivational effect on my mood all the same. I’m expecting this year to suck anyway, what with my Mum’s Alzheimer’s progressing and difficult choices to be made. Obvs there’s the orange buffoon too. I miss having the distraction of a tech industry I believe in

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     Danil (danil@mastodon.gamedev.place)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Jan-2025 21:51:56 JST Danil

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     @sinbad >financial instrument than an enabler

     I saw many "programmers" who work at gov or at banks-infrastructure, even gamedevs - who do not even have PC at home - they write code only at job, and use internet only at job - not interested in "anything" related to IT... programming is just a boring job.

     And even before AI - huge frameworks/comfort of corporate apps - moved many ppl from "learning" to just "using".
     Now with AI - you dont need to even "use" anything - AI do everything for you.