One of the scariest things about today's world with AI agents is seeing our parents generation using it freely without understanding the dangers, and believing every output without a second thought.
I think many of us working in tech tend to forget that the reason software engineering vs other engineering fields pays (a lot!) more, is a lot more flexible (WFH/remote), and has better perks:
Because this field changes much faster than other engineering fields. The premium is because fewer people are able/willing to pick up new technologies, methodologies so quickly.
But the field had ~10-20 years of stability, and so lots of folks forgot this is why a premium exists. And that AI is just another tech wave: software engineers who pick it up and master it will generally fare better; those not will struggle a lot more.
Remote work is the best way to live and work. Todoist has been remote since 2007. Our employee retention is 90%+, and over 20% of the company has been with us for more than 10 years.
There’s no way in hell we would ever go to an office culture,
In case it's not obvious to everyone at this point, individual developers are becoming the meta-lateral movement attack vector for attackers now.
Every few weeks there is a post on HN about an open-source developer being personally targeted to conduct a supply-chain attack through the software that they publish.
I like learning things and I'll keep learning even after AGI (or whatever) is reached. I'll keep writing, reading and questioning things. It makes me human.
This is exactly it: "Agentic hacking doesn’t look like exploits, it looks like breadth-first searches for every possible mistake and misconfiguration."
Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it's the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
It will be the first generation for who building software will feel no different than using it. This is crazy!
The quality and bar of what we expect from our everyday apps will be raised dramatically, we'll have personal software, we'll have disposable software, and agents will be the foundation for most of it
Tech has always been chaotic and evolving, the people who have been able to adapt and move in front of new opportunities have always excelled, this is nothing new, I'm seeing it now and we'll see it 10 years from now
Find the opportunities in the chaose and disruption, there are countless of them