Subj : Re: Issue With Message Im
To   : Digital Man
From : Nightfox
Date : Mon Oct 12 2026 03:15 pm

  Re: Re: Issue With Message Im
  By: Digital Man to paulie420 on Mon Oct 12 2026 11:09 am

 DM> You're welcome. Not as many of us around that recall that. :-)  There was
 DM> always a cheap (e.g. 2 node) option that most Synchronet sysops paid (not
 DM> $299). Boy, times have changed... "Claude, write me a multinode BBS
 DM> program that supports all the doors, message networks, and file transfer
 DM> protocols".

As a software developer, honestly I am a bit scared of the job market when we 
can pretty much develop things like that.  Still, it seems to me like it 
doesn't always get everything right, but I imagine AI tools will keep getting 
better to the point where it could be very easy to use AI to develop a program 
by asking it like that.

Although I think AI tools are useful, I really didn't expect to see the day 
when my job could potentially be replaced by automation.  I'm a bit over 20 
years to retirement, and I'm nervous about my job prospects until then, 
especially with layoffs being as common as they are at tech companies.  In 
hindsight, if I had known all this when I was starting college, maybe I would 
have tried to choose a degree path for a more stable profession.

I think it would be great to win the lottery so I can retire early, but I've 
heard the chances of that are less than being struck by lightning.

Nightfox

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