tl;dr accomplished developer and consultant. Writing about tech, entrepreneurship and mental health.
Last year at this time, I officially started my solopreneurship.
This was an important moment for me. I closed the chapter about my burnout and the following depression. It wasn't easy, but I landed a client, and I was able to sustain myself.
I had many different goals, but as usual, it took longer than expected to achieve them.
Now, my professional site is live, and I have started writing actual content. I am still developing my product ideas.
This is nothing singular or astonishing in itself. I know that. But overall, I am very glad to have started posting here, and I am still around, so expect more to follow.
Feel free to follow and tell me what you are up to!
cya ✌️
@coolcoder56 You think about the most sustainable option. If you find the environment toxic, you will start to shut in and worst case, burn out.
That's not worth it.
@versethera Drucker wrote in The Effective Executive about how computers will change how we work but not how it replaces the need for creative people.
People always feared new technology.
Sometimes in live, you hit rock bottom.
I had a rough year. I had clients pull out and looking for a new job is harder than I would have imagined.
Nonetheless, the important part is to get up again and keep climbing.
@itsankitakar For me, vibe coding implies that you are not really aware of what you are doing. And I find that harmful to the industry and profession.
I use AI all the time and I find it good enough to not be bothered writing code. Doesn't mean, I don't apply my knowledge or learn stuff.
@sebastienlorber AI is impressive but it's also non-deterministic and probabilistic.
And unless we make it omniscient or have figured out to keep up with evaluation and regression automatically (do we need jobs then anyway), RLHF, and engineers tinkering it out will be needed.