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I am 25 years old software engineer, for the context I will explain from where I come from, for non-USA readers, I am not from USA that means , what you will read you have to think it in European context, even though my country is not member of EU. I graduated my local school in Georgia with highest possible grades; I was 1^(st) in class in almost all the subjects other than art. I was participant and winner of my local city and country competitions, in math, history, literature and civil studying. I was captain of Local football team (Real football) and lead in many projects during my school time, same went on university. I am explaining this, just to understand the context that I was never the low qualifications or effort guy. I started studying International relations but my master’s I did in Computer science as computers were always under my interest and desire and to be honest, I was under the influence that I could print money and I was, I landed on decent job after just 1 year of Front-end courses and projects in 2022. I was getting paid well, my career was going good and it is today, I just had terrible experience with my attention span and my performance and that is reason I am writing this open letter, main reason I started thinking about this is that in 2025 I was fired from my software engineering job, it was first time I have seen someone unsatisfied with my performance and job I have done, which was freezing shower for me at that time.

I started questioning myself, what was going on, why I got fired form the job? and I started digging the answers in my recent behaviour. As almost all in my generation I started using the apps as soon as smartphones became a thing. I had my first smartphone in 2014 as 14 years old, it was new in my country and I felt special, then I was regular user of apps such Facebook or any other social network, I was watching YouTube and to be honest I never considered myself as addicted on something, even today, I think I am not addicted and never was to anything.

I downloaded Tik Tok in 2022 and Instagram I had after 2016, I do not remember when Instagram shorts became the thing but as soon as I remember, I was user of it. I have never realized that I got addicted to short content, fast – informative sea of information which I was getting instantly, then it was translated to cheap dopamine that I was getting. Before the bed, after the bed I was using my phone normally, not too much screen time as I had job, study but I was noticing that it was taking my time.

In my previous job from where I got fired, I have realized that, I have not made any noticeable progress in the work, I was working with old boring codebase, which required a lot of analysing and reading, but as soon as I opened a file, started reading 1-2 functions or variables I was in NEED to take my phone and scroll. It was not noticeable at the start, as when you do such thing, you will never realize that it’s done, but that was how time was going on my work, which I have noticed I stopped doing it. Cheap dopamine and constant need of getting it, made me resistant against the doing long time-consuming tasks – or activity which required some effort and not getting the instant hit of dopamine made me absolute on such tasks. Management have not told me that I was getting fired, they politely informed me about my performance and we shook a hand, I found job a month after, better pay better package but as far as I am concerned, I have literally created problem in my life, which is called cheap dopamine. This dopamine can be any other thing, for example texting my girlfriend instead of doing work or doing something else, just not focusing on real problem. I am writing this as I think lot of people in my age and especially younger ones are struggling in same boat. I am training – running daily, doing some extra work and little by little I am getting out of that trouble that I have crated to myself. I just wanted to write this down and potentially publish to audiences ( I have not decided yet).

I wish you all the best.

Hi,
I am TCN Software Engineer, working for one of the airlines in Malta.

I was considering to study mathematics at MCAST or any better alternative, I am 25 years old and I really want to invest my time to study something that i also can be competable to work.

Which unverisity would you recommend ? what are the prices ?

Hi,
I am software dev with 5 years of experience in field, I am using CC daily, for basic task and for dicsussion and consulting as well,

Recently i was kicking off my side project and needed basic landing page, but not really basic basic, rather something a bit original, authentic, I was thinking that would be very easy task for CC.
I put plugins, clear instructions and to be honest, whatever is comming up it's really basic mix of basic * basic.
Yes design is responsive, it's clear, also it's really optimized in the sense of SSR or Client side components, (I am writing it in next.js).
But results ? VERY BASIC.

Now i am thinking, If you really want just normal landing page with basic info, yes CC and AI in general can do that, but if you want anything a slighly creative, There is no way this can be done with models yet.

Hello,
I am TCN working and residing in mainland Malta,
I am going to change my place ( due to My girlfriend arriving country).

Am i just wasting time or it's impossible to find studio, or just 1 bd room apartment in Mainland malta under 950 Euro ?
I am looking in all locations other than South of Island, as it's too far away from my workplace (Skypass).

Thanks in advance !