@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place
Post #1281937
2026-02-11 21:02 UTC
But of course, I’m very fortunate to be able to make this kind of choice. I’m older, and gave up my trad career ages ago to ride the back roads. I was doing open source when that made people think you were a hippie (even more so than now). I should definitely be a Weird Linux Guy, and am certainly destined to arrive there eventually. So what do I know?
All I know is that feeding coins into a code slot machine isn’t how I want to spend my time. If made to do that, I’d find something else to do
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@pmdj@mstdn.social 2026-02-11 21:12
@sinbad I don't think it's just maintenance or quality that's going to come crashing down. From what I see, this stuff is messing with people's brains big time. I don't want to land anywhere on the spectrum between burnout and psychosis, so I'm going to sit this one out while people volunteer or are put forward as guinea pigs by their employers… My sanity is more important to me than staying relevant. I've sat out plenty of other shiny new things and somehow I still find ways to get paid.