
What should we do in AI era?
Hello, I'm Buono. went with a dramatic title but bear with me lol the dream vs reality how do you live in the AI era? is your role getting replaced? I think about this constantly and I know a lot of you do too. I switched careers to become an IT engineer at 40. literally chased the dream of working remotely from anywhere. location independence, freedom, the whole thing. finally got the job... and then AI hit. already getting swept up in the chaos. I haven't written a single line of code not one. recently at least. all I do now is write instructions. "do this, make that work like this." I don't even properly review the code anymore. if it passes the tests, ship it. done. is this really ok?? but the reality is... the work gets done. and it gets done well. so what was the point of becoming an engineer... the tasks I'm completing are stuff I could NEVER have done on my own without AI. but once you actually pull it off, this weird emptiness hits you. I built an entire app in 2 weeks (while
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