A simple reminder.
For India’s currency to remain valuable, India must have something valuable to export to the world. Historically its has been cheap labour and growth story but when western countries replace that with AI and discover high growth industries in their home ground, rupee value could drop significantly and evening India imports would become dramatically costly.
And we do import a lot! Oil, electronics, gold. All of it would become expensive.
This is why India must remain competitive on the global stage. Our population will quickly go from being a growth driver to being a liability if we don’t ramp up on innovation and R&D.
It’s honestly an existential matter for the country’s future.
Code will get commoditized.. and the only way to survive the high competition in a commoditized market is to add value above the base commodity. This essentially means being a generalist and owning a product entirely is the only way you'll standout.
The cost of code is coming down, so we will consume more of it.
The productivity of coders is going up, so they will become more valuable.
Coding now includes training and driving models.
Even though the facts are right in front of me and I realize this little by little every day, it's hard to process that the entire planning and the journey I've been preparing for since my school days was for something that's totally different these days.
most people don’t realise that the world they grew up in is long gone.
everything that your parents know, and everything that your college taught you is redundant now.
soon, everything you have learnt about making a career will be useless.
the RoI on your efforts to get a job will seem so low that you’ll start doubting your every move.
at best, you have 3-4 years to adapt.
take massive risks
use unfair advantages
make lots of money
and go off the grid.
or keep clocking in forever
the AI bubble will accidentally trigger a human renaissance
here's what will happen between now and 2030:
phase 1 (2026-2027):
> everyone automates everything
> productivity goes through the roof
> we celebrate never having to think again
phase 2 (2028-2029):
> mass digital burnout
> people realize they've outsourced their cognitive abilities
> depression rates spike because nothing feels earned anymore
phase 3 (2030+):
> the pendulum swings hard in the opposite direction
> outdoor experiences become the new luxury
> manual skills and human connection become premium
> we start valuing struggle and effort again
the faster we rush toward full automation, the faster we'll crave what makes us fundamentally human
that's what i'm hoping for anyway