Andrew Morgan

That’s what I genuinely feel these days. I don’t provide value to any company right now. I don’t have customers waiting on me. No production outage depends on my code. No market pressure is forcing me to ship faster. So why the hell should I optimize everything through LLMs? Lately I’ve just been sitting alone, thinking deeply, writing completely raw code with my own hands, staring at logs for hours, debugging stupid failing test cases that nobody in the world cares about except me. And weirdly… I enjoy it. Because for the first time in a while, the process actually feels real. The failing tests frustrate me. The broken abstractions annoy me. The ugly edge cases make me question my own thinking. But at least I’m feeling something while building. Maybe this is inefficient. Maybe I should be “10x productive.” Maybe I should automate half my thinking away. But honestly, at this stage of my life, it literally doesn’t matter. Nobody is dying if my side project ships two weeks later. No investor dashboard is tracking my velocity. No PM is asking for updates. So I’d rather struggle through the code myself, understand every ugly detail, and let the frustration shape how I think. Because somewhere in those failing logs and terrible midnight debugging sessions, it still feels like I’m actually learning computers instead of just operating them.