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techblueberryyesterday at 1:56 PM1 replyview on HN

What is too late? If you want to use cryptocurrency as a medium of exchange, go ahead, it’s right there!

There’s this irony to the FOMO in crypto, which is people argue the “sensible” thing (it’s the future of money) to create FOMO for the insensible thing (it’s a lottery ticket). You’re right it’s too late to buy a lottery ticket, but the vision wasn’t a lottery, it was a medium of exchange!

AI assisted coding is the same way. I use it every day, but if I decided to stop and wait a year, I could still pick it up, probably more easily when the tools are better.

In fact, people who wait might do better than me because their mental model won’t be locked into a way of interacting that will be out of date in six months.

Wouldn’t it be ironic if all the early adopters were the losers because they liked the hacky nature of it? This happened to a lot of early computer adopters, low level programmers, etc.


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butILoveLifeyesterday at 2:22 PM

I never said Crypto. I said bitcoin.

And with AI... I am genuinely afraid my job will be automated. I'm trying to become a manager before we are relegated to minimum wage workers.

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