Understanding the pathophysiology of how your terminal illness is killing you is a coping mechanism for death termed “intellectualization”.

Not everyone finds solace in this strategy. Understanding how the blade is forged as it pierces you may be a mundane final thought. But if you survive I suppose you can use that knowledge to pierce others and destroy their planned futures. Let them pivot or let them starve?

Pivoting to some hybrid of generative AI with human edits is appealing to software developers but soulless and essentially anethema to many others.