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the solution might be cancelling my AI subscription

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Except for the SaaS, almost none of this is useful and I don't want to maintain any of it. I accidentally run a news outlet which is surely a liability. Sure, it has helped me "learn AI tooling" and I use many of these tools, but I didn't need them. I can't afford to maintain any of them, not in terms of time, commitment, belief, attention or willingness to spend on tokens. I didn't mean to build most of these things. Usually the Claude session started with something like write a quick script for X, and one hour later the result is not a quick script for X, nor in the usual case is my problem solved, whatever the original itch happened to be. On that last point, this technology is horrific for attention. It's a thermonuclear ADHD amplifier and I have seen the same effect in every single one of my adult friends. Folk running 3 screens simultaneously working on totally unrelated "projects" they have little hope of maintaining, and such little commitment to the outcome that the time is ob

The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription The solution might be cancelling my AI subscription I am trying to think of a list of all the wonderful things I've built with AI: a speech recognition system in Rust an email archive rendering + quote collapsing tool a Jellyfin desktop clone with GStreamer and Qt Quick an Invidious clone in Python and yt-dlp a faithful Windows 95 notepad.exe clone in FLTK ported from the Wine sources a machine vision thing to count traffic flows from public street cameras in OpenCV a Claude UI clone in Python or Rust I think, I don't even remember a regional

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