My first post on DEV was in 2024 - almost two and a half years ago. There, I discussed the feeling that, by being "too old" and in the process of recovering from burnout, I was being left behind by tech. I didn't even know if I wanted to stay working with IT, and how I wanted that work to be.
It's crazy how much has changed in my life since then. Some things improved a lot; some things got worse. And that's OK, it's life. But I have been seeing something in the past few weeks that triggered an alarm inside my head: I keep seeing people describe the same feelings I had back then, and AI seems to be accelerating it.
First of all, and that's important: this isn't an "anti-AI, AI is bad" kind of post. This is a huge topic, and I want to be more specific. This is about the pace of how AI is changing how we work. With that in mind, what I want to discuss is that everything is going too fast, and every new job is demanding a type of knowledge that wasn't even discussed a few weeks ago.
It's 2024, and everyone wants to know if I used AI in some way; that's fine. It's 2025, and everyone not only wants to know if I use AI, but I must also know n8n. Automations. The best models. How to do prompt engineering. How to create a RAG.
