48-year-old engineer: LLMs restored the powers my crystallizing mind lost
vivekhaldar · x · 2026-10-26
A 48-year-old engineer reflects that he could no longer produce the words and code of his twenties—cool projects never fit into nights and weekends—until LLMs arrived. He calls them "a supple and subtle prosthetic" restoring full power to a crystallizing mind, an astonishing stroke of luck for his entire cohort.
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