Recent Conversations
Translated from Korean
Even if AI takes over all the writing and coding, having lunch together at the cafeteria, grabbing a whiskey at a bar after work, and the empathy that blooms through conversation and time shared together — that’s an experience only I can have. I should make more room for moments like these. I still don’t know where my direction should go. But as I talk to more people and broaden my experiences, I think I’ll figure it out, little by little.
- Wait, if I have to keep my computer running just to keep a Telegram bot alive on a server, how much energy is that wasting? If programming — a skill currently concentrated among a small elite — spreads to a much wider population, how much more energy will that consume? Is this okay?
- What if Elon Musk’s Starlink, and data centers built around Starlink? Would that solve problem #1? Or now that we’ve extended our impact beyond Earth into space, can we even begin to estimate the side effects? Asteroid orbits getting disrupted, asteroid collision, a Don’t Look Up ending — is that where this goes?
- If it were my daughter, I’d tell her to study abroad immediately. But then again, won’t the gap between people just keep widening? If that’s the case, maybe the direction you want to go is actually the right one?
- Whether I do things my way or not, I’ll get fired just the same if results don’t come. And I’ll be the one ultimately responsible regardless. If I can’t even try doing it my way, I think the frustration alone would kill me.
- The executives keep telling us to use more AI and even handed out subscriptions, but among the working-level staff, there seems to be more resistance than willingness to adopt it. Still, I think actually building things that are needed in the real workflow is so important.
- I had a meeting with the CEO, and they’re really interested in cutting drama production costs with AI. Things like turning scripts into visuals. But wait — I built a tool for managing extras in the production process, and now it looks like extras themselves might disappear? Hey. Then my job disappears too.
- It feels like AI model progress is approaching an asymptote now. Each time a model version dropped, the performance jump used to feel huge, but now it’s like going from 93 to 94? 94 to 94.5? That kind of incremental accuracy and performance gain. Because of that, my interest is actually fading a bit. What matters more? Is it really AI?
- I went through a phase of debating whether to go study abroad or stay at my company. But when I started preparing the test scores and writing a research proposal, I thought — what do I actually want to research? And just like that, I didn’t go abroad, got married, had a kid, took on bigger responsibilities at work. Time just passed like that. Time really does fly faster than you think.
- Work is something people need even beyond making money, but what happens when there are just a lot of people who don’t need to work at all?
- Humans shouldn’t be coding or programming anymore. They should be engineering. Strategically deciding how to scale out, how to allocate resources, which direction to head. That’s all that will matter and be needed.
