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33 points amichail | 1 comments | | HN request time: 0.21s | source

Maybe you don't think it is as creative as you once did?
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1. I no longer write demo code, to prove skills. It's too easily replicated by someone with an AI account.

2. I used to engage small purpose-built DSL's, languages, and systems because they were easy to adopt. Now they're at a strong disadvantage for lack of AI coverage.

3. I focus a lot more on value to the customer; opportunity is now the limiting factor, so I have the product manager hat on most of the time. So I actually do less coding, pruning almost everything that I used to do just to see if I could.

4. I do try harder problems and techniques, because with AI I can typically get to a MVP I can validate and iterate (i.e., it minimizes the stage where nothing is really working). Sometimes it works, and sometimes it just gets blocked; it's more like hunting than gardening or building.

Overall, it's made skills matter less and opportunity/connections matter more, and those are mostly outside my control. That makes it generally de-powering because though I can do much more, the value of what I can do is diminished by a larger factor.