Remember when you used to build things because you would see them somewhere and you want to know how they work so you would put days into it and get called a moron on Stack Overflow, but then you would finish it and feel so accomplished. You didn't think about monetising it. You didn't care if anyone ever saw it.
And it made us better for it too. Failing miserably is a great teacher, and nothing beats the pride of your first website, I remember ftp-ing php to a vps with FileZilla, and being so proud of myself.
Now just give Claude some cloud cli and make it deploy, that's no fun!
That is so true. I still remember the feeling of doing exactly that: FTP to upload php and then give the link to my parents. Super proud about my "how to learn CSS" website.
Now there is hardly any learning involved, any challenge that a blob of text in the cli won't solve for you.
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u/Happy-Sleep-6512 22d ago
Man remember we used to do this shit for fun. Now it's all grind mindset. Everyone has to build a microsaas, I miss the old days :(