My Addiction

 Hello, my name is Michael and I'm an addict.

Not booze or drugs, but building software products. For the last several days I've been at it all day sunup to sundown and beyond. Some days no shower or shave, just time on the computer with no breaks at all.

It's like it was in the good old days when I was bulding TeleMagic, and other products before it. This addiction has eaten up huge hunks of my life when there was no social interaction... just head down inside the computer.

The worst of it is i'm using Cursor, which uses chatGPT to build the code. Back in the old days I coded in the real languages of COBOL or FORTRAN or Dbase II, or whatever, but now there's this entity between me and the results. It's that chatGPT, and it has a mind of its own, and at any time can hallucinate and go down a rabbit hole of its own imagining and can justify it all with complete technobabble and there we go with no rhyme or reason until somehow it finally gets its act together and the desired result is produced, much later.

I can see the future of software product building, and it's better than this right now, but I'm here in the present, and I'm as addicted now as I had been for so many years in the past. I thought it would be different this time around.

I'm building a wonderful product, but God help me... I want both a normal life of fresh air and sunshine, laughing with friends, AND a wonderful product. Is that too much to ask? Why this Sophie's Choice, why are they mutually exclusive?