I have been driving in Beijing for nearly twenty years. Until this year, I had only been involved in three traffic accidents with other cars before this year.
This year, however, is different. I have already had three incidents.
The first happened when I was waiting at a red turn signal. A cyclist hit me from behind, and then the girl just turned her bike and rode away.
The sencond time,a woman on a motocycle hit my car. She didn’t stop and just rode off. Then yesterday, another woman driver aggressively cut into my lane and crashed into my car.
It feels like there are more and more reckless drivers on the road these days.
那天下午，另一个朋友老陈急匆匆地打来电话，声音里带着哭腔：”完了完了，我的电脑打不开了，开机就黑屏，什么都没有。”老陈是做小生意的，好不容易咬牙花了一万多块钱配了一台电脑，装了 Windows 95，平时用来记记账、打打字，宝贝得不行，连键盘上都铺着一层绒布。可偏偏就是这台金贵的机器，说罢工就罢工了。
在那个下午，他通过一根电话线，以每秒几千字节的龟速，从远端的一个服务器上一点一点地往下拽文件。那时候的网速，下载一首歌要半小时，更不要说一整个操作系统了。但阿杰似乎早有准备，他并不是在下载完整的 Windows 安装包——那在当时的网速下是天方夜谭——而是下载了一些关键的系统文件和引导程序，配合硬盘上残存的数据，像拼拼图一样把系统一块一块地修复、重建起来。
🎵 Old Money is one of my favorite songs. I asked an AI to write song lyrics about an aging programmer left behind in the age of AI, in the style of Lana Del Rey’s “Old Money”. The song is titled “Old Code”.
Lana Del Rey is an American singer-songwriter known for her cinematic, melancholic style that blends dream pop, baroque pop, and Americana. Her music often evokes nostalgia, vintage Hollywood glamour, and themes of tragic romance, wealth, and disillusionment with the American Dream. Her sultry vocals and atmospheric production have made her one of the most distinctive voices of the 2010s–2020s.
“Old Money” (from Ultraviolence, 2014) is a standout ballad that exemplifies her aesthetic at its purest:
Musically, it’s sparse and orchestral — built on gentle piano and swelling strings, with a melody adapted from Nino Rota’s theme for Romeo and Juliet (1968). The arrangement feels like a film score rather than a pop song.
Lyrically, it’s a wistful elegy for lost love and a vanished gilded era — “blue hydrangea, cold cash, divine” — name-dropping Hyannis Port and evoking Kennedy-era Americana. The narrator longs for someone to “come back to” her, mixing romantic yearning with class consciousness.
Vocally, Lana stays in a soft, breathy register, which heightens the song’s intimacy and fragility.
It’s often cited by fans as one of her most underrated tracks — quieter than her singles, but emotionally one of her most concentrated works.
Prompt: Write a song lyric about an aging programmer left behind in the age of AI, written in the style of Lana Del Rey’s “Old Money”.
Old Code
(in the style of Lana Del Rey’s “Old Money”)
[Verse 1] Blue monitors, cold coffee, vim Summer mornings when the world was thin Stack traces falling like Manhattan rain Will you still know my name?
Green cursors, warm servers, mine Floppy disks and the Bell Labs shrine They called me lightning, they called me bright On every Friday night
[Pre-Chorus] But where have you gone, my love, my craft? Where have you gone? Where have you gone? The compilers hum, but they don’t laugh The way you did, the way you did, the way you did
[Chorus] And if you call, I’ll run, my friend Through every model, every prompt, again I’ll write you sonnets out of C Out of Lisp, out of memory If you come back to me If you come back to me
[Verse 2] The juniors don’t read the manuals now They whisper to a ghost; it tells them how My twenty years, a folder on a drive That no one will archive
I was the architect, the quiet kind The kind who left no fingerprint behind Just elegant little functions, pure and small Now no one calls at all
[Pre-Chorus] But where have you gone, my love, my trade? Where have you gone? Where have you gone? The terminals glow, the deadlines fade And I move on, and I move on, and I move on
[Chorus] And if you call, I’ll run, my dear Through every layer, every weight, every year I’ll write you symphonies in Go In assembly, soft and slow If you come back, I’ll know If you come back, I’ll know
[Bridge] The boys in the lobby talk in tongues Of agents, prompts, and lungs of silicon suns I smile, I nod, I sip my tea The river runs without me The river runs without me
[Outro] Old code, old nights, old light Old keyboards clicking through the night Will you remember me, my love, When the machines have learned enough? Will you remember me at all, When the last man lets the last line fall?
经过了互联网，移动互联网两个阶段，科技的进程来到了 AI 时代。在 AI 时代之前，尽管技术不断变化，但编程逻辑没有变，都是程序员设计数据结构，用代码实现算法，完成业务需求。 AI 时代，人工智能会参与到每个环节中来，它可以设计数据结构，可以写代码，它能做很多，而且不知疲倦的去工作。。。 无论将人工智能视为助手还是竞争者，事实上他们都在和程序员存在竞争关系。企业主更愿意使用高效且不知疲倦的机器做事情，年轻的程序员还有一些工作机会，年龄大一些的程序员，大部分大龄程序员必然失去在这个行业继续工作的机会，他们中有些人做到某个领域的顶尖人才，仍然可以继续下去，但这样人毕竟是少数。大部分程序员所从事的工作只是将业务需求翻译成业务代码，业务代码也是基于内部框架基础上来完成的。 也就是通常能看到一些程序员虽然写了很多年 Java ，但对于底层的类库，方法或 JVM 并不了解，因为如果不主动去了解这些也不影响业务开发。程序员像是工厂中的一个工人一样，在设计好的精密机床上做好自己的事情就行了。这也是程序员被称作“码农” 的原因，就像很多年前，Java之父说的那样: Java 是一个蓝领语言。是的，在 AI 时代大部分程序员已经沦为拧螺丝的蓝领码农。
随着 AI 的发展，将来会出现两个极端： 顶尖的创新科技，人文相关领域和最底层很脏很累的行业，不会被 AI 代替，中间很多岗位都会被 AI 直接或间接取代，大部分程序员就处在这个中间群体中。
Today is the first day of work in the Year of the Snake. After a long holiday, my body and mind are reluctant to return to work. It typically takes 2-3 days to settle into the work environment before I can fully immerse myself in my tasks.
Wishing everyone a great start to work. Run Stably, Free of bugs forever!
If you don’t have natural talent, just keep practicing.
Talent can be an advantage, but it’s not the only path to success. If you’re not naturally gifted at something, don’t worry.
The key is repetition. Important things should be said three times: repetition strengthens memory. By practicing regularly and staying consistent, you can improve over time. If you engage in deliberate practice, it’s a highly efficient learning method, allowing you to improve more quickly.
Every mistake teaches you something, and every repetition makes you better. Success doesn’t always come instantly, but with hard work and perseverance, you’ll achieve your goals.
Remember, even the most talented people had to put in a lot of practice to get where they are. If you don’t have talent, just keep repeating the process. Your effort will pay off.
I have two cats, one is a British Shorthair, and the other is also British Shorthair.These elegant, adorable, and docile creatures have become an integral part of my daily life. Whether I am sleeping, reading, or engaging in other activities, they are always by my side, providing companionship and joy. I love them dearly and feel fortunate to have them as part of my family.
Usually,they can take care of themseves,but they need special attention. Owning cat is almost like being a parent. I think about what they are need and provide food,water,a safe home and toys like cat teasers to play with them.
The cats curl up on the sofa or on foot of the bed, when they feel content, they purr. for example, they purr when I give them cat treats or play with them. Sometimes they run around the room in bursts of energy, a behaviour known as the “zoomies”.
When they’re frightened, they arch their back,their hair stands on end, and their tails puff out like a big brush! If a stranger enters my home,they run away and hided under bed or in a corner, observing from darkness.
Not everyone shares an immediate love for cats. My wife, for instance, used to afraid of them. She was heisiant to get close to any cat,let alone touch or hold one.This changed after we brought our first cat home. Initially,she kept her distance,observing the cat from afar.But as time passed, she began to see the cat’s gentle and friendly nature.after long, she was touching cat and holding it. Now she’s not afraid of cats anymore!
I started building websites in 2000 on platforms like 263.net and 163.com and began writing blogs. Many years ago, I used WordPress to create blogs, but all of them were deleted because I forgot to renew the hosting service. Recently, it suddenly occurred to me to start writing again—about life, books, technology, and other topics. So, I decided to rebuild my blog using GitHub Pages.
there are several versions of the screenshots to preseve memories. by Web Archive
