In the last article (The Joy of Learning) I described that it’s actually really fun to learn new things. But how do you even start learning in this day and age, with countless distractions like TikTok and Reels?

If you’ve been wondering why you’ve been so unproductive while other people still get shit done, it’s usually because they are not distracted. If you open Instagram the second you feel even a tiny itch of boredom, you’re basically frying your dopamine and distracting yourself instantly. So you never get that feeling of wanting to learn or build something.

Often when I ask people what they wanna do, like 80% of the time they answer “I wanna do nothing.”, “I wanna be rich.”, or some generic crap.

Most people are uncreative. They just wanna be rich without doing any work.

When I do “nothing” (or something very boring) for a few days, I get bored and start needing to do something creative. That creative thing can be a programming project or something completely different.

I remember in 2022 when OpenAI released GPT-3.5. It was a really interesting model at the time, and we didn’t know what consequences of AI we’d be dealing with today. I used it mostly for annoying school stuff like writing protocols. But for programming it wasn’t great, because all it could really do was write a simple function or a small algorithm.

Nowadays big companies say they’ll replace devs every 3 months, but we already know where that leads. AI is still not good enough for building big applications.

Hello World!