I used to love the internet. I've grown up with it and some of my fondest memories are online ones. In recent years, and moreso in the last few months, I've gradually received less and less enjoyment from being on it to the point where it is getting into the negatives now. I've grown increasingly angry and cynical when it comes to the internet and its netizens and am likely even part of the problem. Why?
As vibe coding gets easier, more accessible and quite frankly higher quality, it is becoming harder and sometimes even impossible to recognize its usage in the making/update of software. Where is this going? What is the place of me and my projects in this? Why am I scared?
This is yet another long AI-related rant, for my previous one/stance on AI see here.
I am very much against genAI, especially when it comes to things that are commissionable from humans. AI sucks, yet I use it and services that use it regularly, whether against my will or not.
Why does it suck? If it sucks, why use it? Not sure. It is hard to reconcile my thoughts on this, but let's try, I guess.
I will not pretend to be an expert on things. This is purely an opinion piece based on my impression of it all and where I think it may be going.
Warning, rant ahead.
As I've talked about before, I'm a sucker for passion. Recently through my efforts in trying to make WoW modding and specifically map making/world building more accessible, I've seen a lot of that. It's reaffirmed my beliefs of so many talented people being out there that simply haven't messed with it due to its lack of accessibility or it being so stuck in the past. It has also reinvigorated my spirit when it comes to the WoW modding community, as my previous experiences with it haven't been as positive as the ones I've been having recently.
The modern WoW modding Discord has been popping off a bit and is at almost 800 members, but with that it has also been bringing up some of my history with communities. This post with will largely be a rant about said history/sentiments with some minor plans/updates around WoW modding at the end and how I think it can be different compared to what came before it. Feel free to skip to the last 2 paragraphs for those plans/updates!
Late night contemplating and reflecting is how I operate. It's when the world and by extension my brain is the most calm and actually able to collect thoughts. I don't know if this is normal or if there's something wrong up there, but that's how it is and has been as long as I can remember.
Most if not all of my big project plans from the last decade stem from late night thinking sessions (often during sudoku or something else automatic). One thing that has always been hard and still is, is actually thinking about my life and my future. I don't think I really know how to do that. I can do it with projects and hobbies, just not life.
There is 1 thing I will always make time for; passion. People talking about their passion, making something that comes from a place of passion or otherwise trying to follow whatever they're passionate about.
I (and I'm sure many others) do almost everything based on passion, to a fault. I've talked about this before and how this can get out of hand, but it's been the thing that got me where I am today. Times are changing, though. I want to use this blog to talk about my passions and why I think it's important that we keep sharing and talking about our passions as much as possible.
This is going to be a quite long-winded post as I just need to get this off my chest, but it sets up what I hope I to use this blog for.