Still trying to sort out my thoughts on generative AI. At a certain point it becomes a question of whether I want to keep participating in the tech industry or not. Maybe the internet itself hit the same to 30something professionals living through the dotcom era, and that never felt weird to young me; only now I'm facing what they faced. On the other hand we all endured the web3 hype cycle which went nowhere. But the new generative AI is actually useful sometimes, even if it's mass plagiarism.