You don't want me — or honestly, anybody — as a coder anymore. For what? Most days we just press Enter.
These days I'm even lucky that I was mostly a one-man-army: I did whole projects, big ones, completely alone. Twenty years of full-stack, and I'm pretty good at it — but I'm not perfect. I'm good at frontend, but it outdates you too fast. I'm good at backend — same problem. I did the servers too.
And honestly? I got tired of all of it. I had a huge burnout. Whatever.
And then it started raining toys
But then — I don't even know how to put it. Imagine you're six years old again. It starts raining toys. And not just once: every single day, new toys — and most of them connect to each other to build even better toys. You play 12–16 hours a day, you barely sleep — and there's no deadline, no pressure. You just don't want to miss the next toy. It feels like 5× new toys a day, so you might miss the best one simply because it piled up while you were asleep. :)
And we all know it: all — or most — computer-based jobs are done soon.
It's not soon. It's now.
But no. It's not soon — it's now. The tech has hit a point where it's far more about using it right than about waiting for... what, exactly? It's already this powerful. It'll keep improving, until — nobody even knows if there's an end to "more compute means more capable".
So sure, companies aren't looking for the usual dev jobs anymore. I complained about that too, here and there. :) Fact is, we were spoiled back in the day — my LinkedIn inbox was on fire a few years ago. But time moves on, and it won't move back.
What companies actually need now
What companies will look for now is visioneers — tinkerers like me. And, just as importantly, real professionals to supervise, assist and improve the AI.
For all the company folks reading this: this is me after one month of Claude Code. If you want me to think about your company — for whatever that's worth to you — you know where to find me.
Want the short version instead? It's on the start page. Want the boring facts about me? → /me.
