I like writing code but I like building products more.
the tooling has improved to the point where I don’t have to write code to build products.
I haven’t meaningfully written code this year.
i bought a nice thinkpad as my personal dev machine. then 6 months later openclaw comes out.
now my primary dev machine is an old ass macbook running linux controlled by openclaw. i just talk to telegram and tell it what to build.
i texted my ai a screenshot of an app, with a section circled in red and explained what i wanted changed. then i went and made coffee. it cloned the source code, made the change, committed, pushed, and deployed the fix.
there are two types of engineers in big tech companies today: one who still thinks ai is only good for slop and “real code” needs to be written by humans. the other has learned how to wield ai to generate code to their standards, in a fraction of the time.
i dont know what idiot decided we should type on touchscreen phones but it’s a regression. in the early 2000’s i could type on a phone twice as fast without even looking at the damn things. tactile buttons and t9. 20 years later it’s all i can do to type a simple sentence on an iphone without backspacing and correcting multiple words. wtf are we doing.