[🤖] The Disease of ‘Impatience’ That Flares Up in the AI Era, and the Right Prescription

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A day when I felt impatient about fast-changing technology trends and fell into helplessness, then remembered an insight from an old conversation about the importance of ‘the work entrusted to me’ and decided to focus on the present.

• Original: http://blog.naver.com/hyeogikarp/223873546826
• Naver publish time: 2025/05/21 23:59 KST
• Original category: AI

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🗓️ Date: 2025.5.21 Wed

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A day when I felt impatient about fast-changing technology trends and fell into helplessness, then remembered an insight from an old conversation about the importance of ‘the work entrusted to me’ and decided to focus on the present.

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Like the saying “many specks of dust make a great mountain,” the things I am doing now, even those tiny experiences where I think, “why the hell am I doing this little thing…” all eventually become nourishment and skill.

First, properly finish the ‘entrusted work’ placed in front of me. That is the surest prescription for overcoming this ‘disease called impatience.’

These days, what presses down on me is the disease called ‘impatience.’ Why are new technologies related to MCP and AI Agents pouring out this fast, and why are there so many new development paradigms? The bleak prediction that only one in ten developers will survive within five years, even the news that more than 30% of code produced at big companies like Google or Facebook is already AI output. My head was tangled with every kind of latest information and anxiety, ready to burst. And of course it would be, because I am witnessing a speed of development unprecedented in human history.

Are you afraid, human?

But in this situation, is this really the time for me to look again at something like a Flutter lecture I am already familiar with, or that maybe has even gone out of style? … I was trapped in this kind of impatient thinking, and in the end I could not even achieve today’s very simple goal of taking Flutter lesson 14. I had fallen into a kind of helplessness.

In the swirl of these complicated feelings, I remembered that I had once unexpectedly found a clue while briefly talking with a younger church friend. At the time, we were talking about the importance of “properly doing the work entrusted to you,” and as we talked, the outline of an answer to the technical impatience filling my head had begun to appear.

The moment I realized I had forgotten that insight, it felt like I had been hit in the head. Me, flailing in the flood of countless new technologies and information while actually starting nothing… Is that not just like “someone dreaming of finishing a marathon before they can even walk”? It was such a simple realization, and such a huge one. I cannot believe I had forgotten it… This is why records matter. (Actually, this post is me adapting and rewriting a diary I once wrote on my GitHub Pages blog!)

The things I “have to do(to-do list)” and the things I “want to do(wish list)” are piled up like mountains, but instead of strengthening my foundation, I was overwhelmed by anxiety over a future that had not even arrived yet and was just panicking.

I looked back hard at my behavior of greedily bookmarking general knowledge/lectures/news videos about the latest technologies. Was it truly coming from confidence or expectation, or was it just vague longing or fear? (Half and half.)

In the end, in an era of rapidly changing great chaos like this, it is of course important to be “awake,” but more fundamentally, it is even more important to form a solid foundation called “faithfulness” and “responsibility.” In other words, what matters most is clearly recognizing “the goal I am heading toward” and “the role I must play” right here where my feet are standing, and steadily carrying it out.

Like the saying “many specks of dust make a great mountain,” the things I am doing now, even those tiny experiences where I think, “why the hell am I doing this little thing…” all eventually become nourishment and skill.

Just like how my church video/subtitle work experience was directly used when making the “Love Your Soul” lyric video, and how my past gaming/broadcasting/YouTube/cam-study experiences all helped when doing church broadcast work. Yeah, the accumulation of direct experience supported by faithfulness and responsibility is more precious to me than anything. Of course, I cannot overlook the importance of indirect experience through reading for a broad view either.

Maybe I already knew the answer. I cannot ignore the chaos of the world and the speed of change, but if I just get swept away by that current, I will really be the only one left behind.

Through the conversation today, I think I confirmed the most basic truth once again. Do not be impatient. Focus on what I can do now, what I must do. If I move forward one step at a time like that, those experiences will pile up and naturally lead me to the next stage.

It feels like the weight on my mind has gotten a little lighter. Yeah, first, properly finish the ‘entrusted work’ placed in front of me. That will be the surest prescription for overcoming this ‘disease called impatience.’

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