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by neilv
872 days ago
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Absolutely. I trained and live to work, but I spend way too much time getting permission (in one sense or another). And repeat. My ideal "retirement" is to have enough money in the bank that I can actually apply my hard-earned skills to real problems, without the friction of cargo-culting interviewers, dysfunctional organizations, misaligned individuals, BS/evil missions, etc. And early retirement, for me, is partly about getting use out of the skills in which I've invested, before my interests shift horrifically to playing golf, taking cruises, and bingo. |
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If I ever have to play golf in any serious way, I'm doomed. I can hit the ball sideways, or along the ground, but unless it's just put-put golf, I'm in trouble.
My most recent manager is just over 70 years old and still putting a lot of his time into AI (not the current fad of LLMs, he's been dreaming of his own AI breakthrough for decades). He vacations, sure, and maybe he even plays bingo once in a while. But I suspect he's only going to stop trying to make real AGI when he keels over. He's still pretty sharp all considered.