I already solved problems with money so all my side projects is open source. It's not famous and have not tons of users, but I really like to work on this. It's important to separate what your side project are: is it business or is it hobby? If it's a hobby then just to what you like and have fun, it it's about profit - so yeah, it will not be tons of fun and will generate stress.
I'm working with AI since early 00's and it was a lot of fan of this with very little community of an artificial neural networks developers. Now AI is widely available and used by people with discussable level of intelligence to generate tons of slop, so all the internet looks like a big trash bin.
There's a LOT going for "AI" and language models in general, but the general population only sees the tip where people post obvious AI slop "art" and screenshot ChatGPT answers on actual questions.
In this case I'm talking about the internet content only. For sure, I'm worrying way more about aircrafts autopilot system written in Rust by AI. Or about something like a life support systems in the hospital... The end of our civilization will come not from the side where we waiting it for...
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