#AI

Every major technology caused short-term layoffs and long-term demand expansion. The printing press didn't create unemployment. It created the publishing industry. AI is no different.

Software for beekeepers. Custom ERP for alpaca farms. A scheduling app built by a physiotherapist for physiotherapists. The long tail of digitalization just got a brain.

For 10 years everyone said you don't need a CS degree. They were right. Then AI showed up and flipped the table.

Notion, Monday, Airtable - they were solutions to a problem that's disappearing. The problem was that custom software was too expensive. It isn't anymore.

Every productivity leap in history promised more leisure. Every single one delivered more work instead. AI won't be different - and this time the acceleration is personal.

Every productivity leap in history promised more leisure. Every single one delivered more work instead. AI won't be different - and this time the acceleration is personal.

They collected everything but couldn't read it. Metadata was the compromise - not because they didn't want your messages, but because no one could process them. That bottleneck just disappeared.

The first wave of companies will fire developers. The second wave will wonder why their competitors ship 100x more.

Books, the internet, now AI. Every knowledge revolution promised to close the skill gap. Every time, the opposite happened. This time the math is worse.

AI will keep smashing milestones, but performance isn’t proof of personhood. The goalposts keep moving because we don’t even agree on what “human level” means.

Audiobooks aren't broken because of narration quality - they're broken because they ignore how humans actually learn. This essay explores why nonfiction needs to be spoken, not read aloud, and how AI could rehumanize knowledge delivery through natural dialogue.

AI is transforming software development. The traditional developer role is evolving into something faster, leaner, and closer to the product. Welcome to the era of the Product Engineer.