Tags: ai, career, productivity, discuss
Last month I met a developer at a Shenzhen tech meetup who told me he was "waiting to see where the AI thing goes" before deciding whether to learn it. He's been waiting for two years. In that same two years, I've watched someone with zero coding experience ship a working SaaS product using Cursor and Claude.
The gap between these two realities is what keeps me up at night.
Let me be clear about something: I don't believe AI is going to replace software developers. Not in the way the Twitter panic threads suggest. The idea that a CEO is going to type "build me Facebook but for dogs" into ChatGPT and fire their entire engineering team — that's fantasy. The technology isn't there. The real threat is subtler and, honestly, more interesting.
AI won't replace you. But someone who knows how to wield AI effectively absolutely will.
