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Yeah.. It's just not something that really excites me as a computer geek of 40+ years who started in the 80s with a 300 baud modem. Still working as a coder in my 50s, and while I'm solving interesting problems, etc.. almost every technology these days seems to be focused on advertising, scraping / stealing other's data and repackaging it, etc. And I am using AI coding assistants, because, well, I have to to stay competitive.

And these technologies come with a side helping of a large chance to REALLY mess up someone's life - who is going to argue with the database and WIN if it says you don't exist in this day and age? And that database is (databases are) currently under the control of incredibly petty sociopaths..



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