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EnrichedOpen SourceHacker NewsCommunityLive · 2h agoPublished 8/18/2026

Ask HN: Does anyone else feel like nothing matters anymore?

New software releases? Who cares. Learning new CS concepts? Whatever. Studying for the next interview? Job probably won't even exist in a year. Working on that side project? No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groc

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New software releases? Who cares. Learning new CS concepts? Whatever. Studying for the next interview? Job probably won't even exist in a year. Working on that side project? No one will care because it's just another addition to the mountain of slop, and the guy bagging your groceries can do it. Everything is done and cooked with AI now. It's exactly like that feeling once you enable cheats in a g

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