You know what? I miss when tech was quiet.
Not "boring". Just quiet. You’d sit down, open your IDE, maybe browse a few blogs or forums, tinker with some open-source repo. It felt like a craft: like carving wood, or doing art, in a way.
Now? It’s a circus 🤡 Every second person is an "AI visionary." Every second news post is someone explaining ChatGPT like they discovered a fucking fire for the first time. Every third app suddenly "powered by GPT." And every fourth post on LinkedIn sounds like it was generated by AI about AI.
It’s not the tech that ruined it. It’s the "tourists". The ones who didn’t want to build anything, but just belong to the hype. They came in, sold their "10-minute prompt mastery" courses, and left behind more noise and trash than Stack Overflow’s dark mode petitions.
Before AI, the bar was rather high. You actually had to know things. Now the bar is buried somewhere under a pile of clickbait thumbnails and "Top 10 AI Tools That Will Replace Developers" videos.
And corporations? Oh, they smelled the blood instantly. I bet Microsoft’s out here is reviving Notepad just to add AI copilots to it. Google is injecting "AI summaries" into your search, gmail, notes, now having an "actual" reason to read your data. And half the startups are basically: "Hey, what if we made an AI that generates worse content, but faster?"
But here’s the funny part, the hypocrisy.
I use AI every day. It is useful. Hell, I’m literally speaking about AI at the BuildStuff conference this year. Yes, as a speaker, hah.
So maybe I’m part of the problem too?
Or maybe I’m just trying to build something real with it, not just another hype machine?
Hard to tell anymore, isn’t it?
Because that’s what it’s turned tech into: a dopamine economy. People don’t learn now, they refresh the promt, page, see different things. They don’t create, they generate. Everyone’s chasing the next tiny high of dopamine rush and AI is now here to provide it.
Meanwhile, those of us who actually live in tech are just trying to hear ourselves think. We didn’t come here for the noise. We came here because we liked the craft.
Soo no, AI didn’t ruin tech. It just showed up, and suddenly the cozy village turned into a neon-lit circus. Every corner now has a "visionary" screaming about "the future". Some of them are right, meanwhile others are just the "town idiots".
And I’m still here, quietly "soldering" things together in my "village-that-became-a-circus" while the tourists chase their next dopamine hit.
