alt Hacker NewsI work for myself and I absolutely love AI.
I'm able to get 3x the work done. Greenfield stuff appears almost immediately.
My job is providing value to customers, not worshipping at the cathedral of software that will last forever. Nothing lasts forever.
Start treating software as ephemeral. It'll click.
This doesn't mean write low quality, unmaintainable software. It just means focus on getting stuff to your customer.
Writing in super typesafe languages with the highest level of strictness helps a lot. My AI stack is Rust and Typescript.
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This is the right way to look at things now. It might not always have the right track record, but AI built coding is more likely to have all the right permissions in place by default, most likely to copy existing patterns in your codebase, most likely to use the highest performance patterns and on top of all that, the spec will match what was asked of it.
I tried using it last week to make a simple Yu-Gi-Oh! website, that shows decks, lets you rate them, register users, etc. kinda like masterduelmeta.com and I enjoyed using it, but definitely did not enjoyed making it. I didn't felt a sense of ownership or dopamine from nailing the styles just right, or making the cards shimmer when you hover them.
All jobs can generate income. What led me follow this one job in particular was the joy of turning nothing into something, and it now feels that the most effective way to do that is for only $99.99/month, and that price needle is only going to move further upwards as capabilities increase.