On missing the pursuit of knowledge while being dumb

As I get closer to making peace with the new reality of agentic programming, I miss having the agonising cravings of learning a new programming language. Those impulsive urges I used to get at 3AM in my tiny college room to find out a new, niche language, and scavange through its documentation, thinking that I can master in by the next morning.

Though it is a very personal agony but at the same time, I miss being part of a community which would talk about what they are learning, instead of what they are building. Sure building projects, apps, tools helps in one’s personal growth and knowledge that they can harness about that particular thing. And sure, building solutions has more chances of a widespread impact than an individual’s selfish desires to master Haskell in 2 hours.

The most painful part of all of this is the fact that we have never been this close to a reality where the amount of information and knowledge one can conceive in so high for a little time and effort. Yet, when one tries to do so, and use the tools to learn something they always wanted to learn, they step out in the world to talk about it, and there’s no one to talk to. While they will find more and more people, who are using the same tool, the same unacquired knowledge to build the same solution this individual envisioned to do, after acquiring the due knowledge.

Tough times. Peace out. Rant over.