I wasn’t so keen on the idea of network states, given whose floating them, but I do wonder if like could we have network states tied to certain historical times; if you wanted to be a blacksmith say.

Arguably this is what the Amish did.

It would be nice to say, use AI to bring your state some level of wealth or abundance, while abstracting it behind an environment isolated from modern technology.

I don’t want to live through the actual turmoil of the 1800s, but a simulated version? Bring it on.

If you miss the friction, then I think you want to seek new friction in trying to build bigger things with your expanded capabilities

For even more nostalgia you could go back pre Internet, the search for the right book on the thing you were trying to achieve. You had to go to a technical book store and physically scan the shelves, buy it and read it.

I share a general sentiment; however, the craft was never in sifting through Stack Overflow threads or reading mediocre docs for the 50th time. The craft is in architecture decisions, understanding trade-offs, and being skilled enough to know when the LLM is spewing out garage.

We can still have the same satisfaction from our work, it just shifts to a different type of friction.