The thing is, you learn something every time you go through an experience like that. Back in 200x, you learned how to build high-scale platforms without containerization or Docker. Then you discovered how the people behind those systems had done some genuinely impressive engineering: splitting individual responsibilities (even something as seemingly trivial as NPC behavior) into separate processes, using shared memory to make everything run as fast as possible, using ODBC to save a few milliseconds on database access, and so on. And with every new piece of the puzzle you uncovered, you wanted to dig deeper, because the whole thing just kept getting more impressive. :) Those countless hours always came with valuable lessons. I agree that the recent AI boom has accelerated everything dramatically. But it also means that, in many cases, you're learning less because you simply can't keep up with the pace of change. :) With AI, this work that took a years can perhaps be done in a single year. But what's the point then? If AI does all the learning and problem-solving for you, what do you actually learn from the experience? :)) I kept this work ongoing for many year, copied from disk to disk and everytime when I come back to it(I needed breaks ofc), it was always a joy and learning. Now I know that I will never run a real server on it again, so offering this book of experience to someone else who would appreciate and hopefully continue.
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