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I'm no longer excited about projects other people share online.
It’s the same for me, but I really can’t put my finger on why I feel that way.

Maybe you subconciously expect that it’s vibe-coded fart that will be unmaintained in six months as the person who built it loses interest?

Or maybe it’s the sheer volume of stuff that is being built now?

Or maybe I’m just depressed by it all. Don’t know. Wonder what you think about it.

Because now it's much harder to gauge how much human effort went into building a project.

Also basic brain chemistry: seeing a pack of impressive (by 2020 standards) solo dev projects a day makes it the new norm, raising the bar for the future. But now I feel like this bar is not reachable because of no way to accurately measure "impressiveness".

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