Times are changing, my role is changing, my focus is changing, my impact is changing. But in essence – I'm still doing the same. I still build products that drive impact. Only my day-to-day looks completely different.
The shift is happening, sooner or later, if you want it or not. Whether or not you can cope, is all up to you.
In the past, I was neck-deep in code. That was what the majority of my time consumed. I liked it, building things, building products. These days, that's all done by an endless amount of AI agents. I barely touched any code in the past half year – if not even longer.
My focus moved from building products to building my own process
The work that used to go into a feature now goes into the process that produces the feature. Instead of losing the first hour of my day to Slack and email, I built a small stack of scheduled agents that hand me a briefing before I even open my laptop (already wrote about that one). Instead of reading every pull request line by line, I set up a review loop where agents do the first pass and I stay on the hook for whatever they flag. None of it started as a plan. Each piece started as one specific annoyance I got tired of and fixed.
