Turning 32

1:38 AM (of Thursday, September 18th, 2025)

Today is Wednesday, September 17th, 2025, and I am officially 32 years old as of today. No matter what I tried, I could not slow down time, and I could not prevent it from passing. No matter what I did, I turned 32. It doesn't matter who, time will pass by for all of us, and we will all eventually die as well. These are all inevitable.

One of my favorite quotes of all time is to be said from Queen Elizabeth II. I learned this quote when I was 21, and I've thought about it pretty frequently since then, "all my possessions for a moment of time." The quote is said to be from her, but it's also contested, she may not have ever said those words. But still, it's interesting, because she was once the most powerful person on the entire planet, and even she could not prevent time from passing, and could not prevent her own death. Even Zoroaster, Jesus, Buddha, (if they existed), all aged, and all died, too.

It's interesting how much can happen in a day too, and today felt like it was so eventful. At night time I worked, and did some programming with AI. This is the very first time I worked with AI to make a project from scratch, and it turns out that AI actually cannot code better than a human. At least, I feel like it's not as good as me when I fully concentrate on a project. It hallucinates too much, and makes up too many things. It over-complicates everything.

An example of this is the ".gitignore" file. This is just a file that tells this one program to skip looking at whatever files are in specified in there. When a project is started from scratch, sure it is helpful to fill this out. There are "templates" online that have this filled out, I guess people use those, but I personally believe it's much more practical to just add files in there to ignore as needed, and not have it filled out all the way initially. Like there are templates online that automatically have files to ignore, such as the ".ds_store" files that every folder in MacOS has, and directories too, you can specify the .gitignore to ignore entire folders.

To me it doesn't make sense to use a template that already has files to ignore filled in, because it could have a lot of items that you never even create. Why "ignore" a file you have never even created? It doesn't make sense. That's what I believe anyway. When AI creates the .gitignore file, it adds like 120+ files and folders into there. I'm like, wtf, we are never going to create 99% of those files, so why add them there? Why add files that never exist and will never exist, into an ignore list? To me that doesn't make any sense.

And the above is just one example of where I think AI programming is wrong. It hallucinates and creates excessive files, folders, and lines of code, all the time. All the time. For me, I only program what's needed. To get something done, I might create a single function in like 5 lines of code to do it. AI will probably make 3 files and folders, and add so much lines of code, just to do the same thing. It's true, it does this, and it is extremely annoying. I only know it's wrong because if I ask it to do something that I know how to do, it will do something excessive to get it done, seriously.

Where AI is magical is when I ask it to do things that I don't know how to do. I can learn everything, it's not like I can't learn about some particular thing, but that it takes time to learn it. I don't know React and its single page application philosophy, for example. I can ask AI to make some react things for me, and to me, that's magical since I have no idea what it's doing. I could learn and study React, but that would take like a week or something, and a lot of effort and concentration. I could just ask AI to do some React things for me, and it does. The problem is that I know it's doing excessive things. It's probably making 20 extra files and folders that aren't needed, and so on, but I can't correct it, since I don't know what it's doing in the first place.

And AI can't even fix simple issues sometimes. So, working on a new project, there's some obvious connection code used to connect to the database I made for a project. It has some error, and when I read the code, I notice the error right away. It's pretty obvious. Anyway, I give the AI this error, and it pretty much rewrites this entire project just to try and fix it. I'm like, wtf. All you have to do is delete these 3 lines, and replace it with 1, that actually was the solution, which I saw instantly, and AI could not. I gave it 3 attempts, saying "the error is still there", and it kept rewriting the whole thing from scratch and it still wasn't fixing it, so I did it manually.

Anyway, those are the limitations I encountered with AI. Arguably it is so good again for when it's doing things I have no idea about. But when I actually know how to do what I'm asking it to do, it does excessive work to accomplish the same thing.

So yeah, I turned 32 today. What can I say about it? Today was an eventful day. I did a lot. So I worked with AI on this new project at night, I woke up at like 2-3 AM and worked with AI on a new project until 8 AM or so. Then I went with my parents to a nearby church, a church that is one block away, and my parents still wanted to drive there (arguably it takes 10 minutes to walk there, even though it is only a block away). Working on this new project, AI cannot do things on its own from scratch that well, in my opinion. It can get things done, but it will create excessive folders and files and such. I've only worked with it on existing projects before, my own projects, and it made really good improvements, but when working from scratch, it has little idea what it's doing.

We had mass at church for half an hour, and it was very meditative. I'm not religious, but I know all the religious rituals and such. There are these lines and actions you perform while at church, such as kneeling, doing the "father, son, holy spirit" actions with your fingers, and reciting commonly known prayers. Everyone just follows along. To me, being religious is similar to being non-vegan, but at least for the most part being religious doesn't harm others, while being non-vegan actively harms others.

Back at home, I did some regular work that I'm paid for. I am not paid for any of my personal projects or anything, yet. But I am paid for doing work for other people. I don't use AI for any of this work that I'm paid for. I know what I'm doing. I think if I asked AI to do things in this project, it will do excessive things.

I also updated my iPhone to iOS 26 and Apple Watch to WatchOS 26 today. I don't have positive reviews for these. I think the new Liquid Glass theme by Apple sucks. The previous one was great. The one before the previous one was even better. Whatever iOS version the iPhone 13 had when it came out, that was the best version, in my opinion. If we kept everything as is during that time, that would have been the best. Now with all these "upgrades" and things, it didn't actually improve the user interface or user experience much or at all, in my opinion.

At around noon, my parents and I went to a vegan Asian restaurant. It's around 40 minutes away. There are some closer vegan places, but their menus aren't as robust. We could have also eaten at a non-vegan place and just gotten vegan options, but I prefer fully vegan restaurants. The food is always great, all the taste and flavor even in non-vegan dishes is always from vegan ingredients and seasoning to begin with, and you can recreate any dish vegan. Meat substitutes have been around for thousands of years too. I've been vegan since I was 19. There has never been any reason to harm animals, ever.

I think, comparing myself now to 10 years ago, when I was 21-22, things are largely the same, and I am pretty much the same exact person. Not only has my appearance barely changed, I still have roughly the same level of knowledge, skill, and ability, as back then, it feels that way anyway. I am as vegan today as back then, as good with computers today as back then. I can do pull-ups and chin-ups now, whereas back then I wasn't able to, but there's been no change in my appearance to show this. I have had girlfriends, relationships, have thousands more followers on social media today compared to back then, had tons more life experiences compared to back then, but again, it doesn't show at all in my appearance.

It's funny that you cannot tell at all what someone has done, what experience someone has, what knowledge someone has, what possessions someone has, how many followers someone has, based on their appearance alone, yet we make so many judgments based on appearance alone. Also there's been no change to my physical appearance despite being fitter, despite being able to do pull-ups and chin-ups now, 11 in a row of each too.

The rest of the day, at home, I worked. I could have, should have, gone outside and walked and exercised, but I didn't. Not sure why I didn't. It's been more than 12 hours since I last ate at the restaurant, and other than that I ate some vegan cake at around 7 PM, but I am still full. So full still. But I want to lose weight still.

Something I used to do but haven't done in ages, is walk around outside at midnight, at around 3 AM, at around this time actually. There is this entire road nearby where the entire street is lit up. I used love walking up and down it. The neighborhood and area where my parents live is a pretty safe and decent place. I think I will go ahead and do that at around 5-6 AM later today. Not right now, mainly because my parents will throw a fit if I walk outside so late.

Anyway, that was my day today. No health problems or any aging related problems or anything, yet. Not at age 32. If there are any issues, I haven't noticed them. Even my appearance really hasn't changed all that much compared to when I was 21 years old. I am noticing some facial aging though, just a little bit.

But anyway, that was my day today.