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I used to feel proud of the fact I reverse engineered some of my laptop's features using stuff just like this. I suppose that's over.
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yjftsjthsd-h • 08/19/2026
You're proud of yourself for being able to do the work yourself. That somebody else can get the end result without the skill means that they get the end result, but it doesn't undermine your achievement.
I suppose you can still be proud you did it during pre AI times and the gained knowledge by doing it yourself.
I don't expect Claude and other hosted AI's to be available so freely and thats when it'll get harder for me to do stuff like that.