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jyn's avatar

this made me unbearably sad to read and i think i need to lie down and take a nap

you are an excellent writer

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Madeleine Song's avatar

hey jyn

thank you for your comment. hope you got your nap. i've been feeling like i need more and more of those nowadays. getting creaky.

who are you?! what do you love what do you do

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jyn's avatar

gosh yeah tell me about it, doesn't seem fair to feel tired so often when i'm still in my 20s

i am a programmer! i love learning new things, and climbing, and walking in national parks, and helping people. i got into programming because there's such a fast feedback loop between trying things and seeing if you're right, it makes it possible to learn so much faster.

i used to volunteer to build tools that made it easier to program, and i really enjoyed it for a while because i saw the people it was helping, but i've kinda burned out on that now. seems like everywhere is trying to use LLMs in places where it doesn't make sense, like i saw a job ad the other day for using gen AI in 911 first responder systems which just seems like a recipe for disaster in 5 years when the startup loses funding :/ feels so hard to find something that actually helps people instead of just making a lot of money or propping up the military industrial complex

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already forever's avatar

perfect

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Madeleine Song's avatar

xx angel

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