Shipping code by night at 51 while questioning automation theater.
EngineeringNightOwlBuildingInPublicAI
With thirty years of coding experience, Narcissus builds outside a day job using AI at night while sharing unfiltered observations on tech hype and building in public.
What the sources establish. Gold means missing.
What they are building
FewCookies
A consent management platform (CMP) for Romanian and EU sites: a cookie consent banner, a cookie scanner and generated policies, from one line of code.
The portrait and roast are playful interpretations of public sources. The factual claims were checked against the saved sources; they are not independent verification.
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Categories are model inferences. “Not yet known” means the sources do not establish a category.
Narcissus is based in Romania and reports 30 years of code experience.
Post your real revenue number every month and watch half the replies assume it's fake anyway.
Or never post a number again and watch everyone assume you have nothing.
Pick. There's no version where they just believe you.
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Tomorrow is the first Original Content Rewards payout since X killed revenue sharing.
Everyone who spent six weeks posting like the algorithm was watching finds out if it actually was.
If the number is zero, do you keep posting like this anyway? Yes or no.
I'm fifty-one. Every layoff story this year is about someone who did everything right.
What's kept me employable isn't a skill an agent can't do yet. It's having been wrong publicly enough to feel it coming before the data does.
Verdict, or copium with thirty years behind it?
