I’m not a (total) doomster. But I’m very much well informed. And if I can offer any advice, it is start educating yourself on AI. Learn how to use it. Recognize how extremely fast changes will be happening. Any change at extreme rates results in a lot of chaos. Because, while we are very much able to adapt, changes at fast rates will mess with order. So this is my public service announcement - and something I’ve been eluding to for a while now - things are going to change and they are going to change faster than ever.
The scope of this writing is not to discuss what jobs will essentially become obsolite. But this change will happen. Absolutely without a doubt, this is 100% a truth. Our understanding of life is about to get rocked harder than any time ever in history as we know it. It’s not hype. It’s not paranoia. In fact, I’ve slowly been moving to a more optomistic stance for the future. Regardless - A lot of people are going to be replaced by AI. So if you are one of the many people I know that just refuse to even consider learning a bit about this - you are gonna get fucked. That’s the first time I’ve sworn on this blog, so take that for the severity it is. The more you learn, the more you will understand its potentials, and the more you will be able to determine if your current direction is one worth sticking with. Many people will get screwed out of pensions, out of work, and non adaptors will have serious issues.
It’s not all bad though. Now is the time to focus on entreprenurial goals. At the moment, it’s not quite there - but it’s damn close. But the idea of generating services where all the boilerplate and even very technical implementations is almost entirely handled by AI is an arms reach away. Now that AI agents are relatively common, and can iterate and improve on their work based on typical programmatic flow, combined with smart methods of retaining memory (formatted MD documents which are referenced for instance on each task), I can tell you this much about development as a whole:
- If you have moderate to advanced programming/scripting and OS understanding, you can create enterprise applications in 1+ weeks. Start to finish. If you understand what the agent is doing, and can ask the proper questions, and assume solutions based on what it reports, these technologies just bumped you to top level dev.
- If you are a beginner, you can make some really cool stuff quite easily, though larger scale projects will break and you might not know how to ask the right questions to correct.
- If you know nothing, you can still make some cool stuff
And by the way, this is based on utilizing ChatGPT-4o api. Apparently ChatGPT5 is next level.
The reality is, Programming is going to be replaced with vibe coding. Is this a bad thing? I don’t think so. I mean, it sucks when you spend a ton of time studying the hard way but, does that mean we should look down on ways we can develop faster because we did it the old fashioned way? Hell no.
Just like my stance on Open Source software, I’m all for this. We are entering an era where people who have great ideas but might not have the computer technical edge are going to be able to at the very least prototype those ideas quite easily. I mean - this is moving very very very fast. I’m excited and stoked and kindof worried.
