Fear of AI made me create my own product

After losing my job, I encountered problems and questions that had always been there, but I hadn't paid much attention to them. But that's what defined the new me. Where should I begin my story… I am a front-end developer with eight years of experience. Since September 2025, I have been looking for a job. And no, this is not another article about broken hiring or something else. This is my story of how losing meaning in the moment helps me understand and reflect on my entire professional experience. And that, sooner or later, everything I have done will mean nothing. After losing my job through no fault of my own, I was confronted with problems and questions that had always been there, but which I had never paid much attention to: Apathy and the trap of being a developer: "Why learn anything new about technology if AI will be able to do it in a month anyway?" "What's the point of learning if a library or framework only lasts 2–3 years on average?" With the realization that after 2020,