Grieving the loss of details

I think part of the grief is losing the way we learned to do something we loved. Most people care about what software does, not how we made it. The hard part is accepting that what makes the job satisfying for us isn’t always what makes the result useful to others.

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I'll introduce the concept of Hobbies for those who crave the details. Hours spent in the basement/attic/office/garage/workdesk sweating the details in an inefficient and un-economic way. Learning music, painting figurines, woodworking, playing with microelectronics, making sculptures, model aircraft, ham radio. Offline things, intentionally far away from the frontier that bring joy, depth of understanding, and are intentionally not going to be gobbled up by an LLM.

It's great that she takes joy in his work, and sad that economics is pushing her to focus on different details with less joy. But the same can be said for a horse groom who loves her work being pushed to transition into a mechanic. Change sucks, but less than petrification.