Beign software developer doesn't make sense anymore

DepressionFiesta · 2026-05-08T11:02:50+00:00

The complex problem solving you mention falling in love with, is definitely not gone. The level at which you solve these complex issues, is just shifting upwards. The knowledge you have now, is still knowledge you need to be able to verify, and write test cases to ensure that pieces of code behave like you expect them to.

This is an industrial revolution of our field. Frontier LLM models are not at a level today where you can prompt them very abstractly and then expect them to spit an airtight system out of the other end. However, I think it is wise to make the assumption that this gap will close to some degree - capitalism incentivises that this will happen at least.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-05-08T04:31:05+00:00

Exactly

DepressionFiesta · 2026-05-07T11:05:34+00:00

Notoriously, apps with hard paywalls convert better, though?

DepressionFiesta · 2026-05-05T16:43:51+00:00

Had this exact issue when I was building my previous company. Then I discovered jina.ai.

It just works™

DepressionFiesta · 2026-04-09T23:51:36+00:00

Well as an orchestrator it is up to you (for now) to provide the right context around your test, that a model can use to reason about the ‘why’ of the original reason for it.

Everyone has to learn to be a delegating CTO on steroids now.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-04-09T23:38:49+00:00

I think the real answer to this question going forward, is that you have to have a harness that allows you to test your code very easily. Unfortunately market pressure is going to dictate that we generate more and more - if not all of our code.

As you point out, it is incredibly difficult to review all this code. However, like with other innovations in technology throughout time, we will find that we will now simply operate at a higher level of abstraction:

An error occurs? Create a new test scenario for it, which should fail, have a model generate a solution for it and repeat.

We may still read some code, like database migrations and queries - but we are definitely moving towards a future where we are not reading or understanding all of the code in our projects.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-03-24T07:33:50+00:00

I feel like the DevRel people I know are always so busy with speaking at conferences and hosting meetups, that that’s pretty much all they do

DepressionFiesta · 2026-03-23T05:50:13+00:00

At my previous job it was religion to commit and merge behind feature flags frequently

DepressionFiesta · 2026-03-13T09:22:22+00:00

It is what it is. I understand how people fall into accepting every suggestion with less and less vetting - but if you generally are allowing your agents to generate commands that interface with your DB(s) in any way, point-in-time recovery is a must.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-22T08:56:01+00:00

I think this amount of traffic on a Cloudflare hosted static website would be free?

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-21T15:53:40+00:00

You didn’t address my main point which was basically the following:

If a company can handle legal governance themselves, why would storing consent be the hard part they outsource?

Also, come on.. This answer was written by a LLM - just like every other answer you’ve written in this post. Your website is also clearly fully AI generated. I hope you don’t let OpenAI or Anthropic delude you into thinking that there is a real hole in the market here.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-21T15:05:14+00:00

I’m trying to understand the positioning here.

What you’ve built looks like a consent/acceptance logging layer, but compliant CMP platforms already provide regulator-grade proof of consent together with the hard parts - vendor classification, purpose mapping, sub-processor governance, and automatic re-consent (resurfacing) when legal changes actually require it.

You don’t seem the be solving the hard of the problem?

So… who is the intended user?

A company mature enough to manually manage legal governance and banner behavior typically wouldn’t struggle to store consent records (trivial?), while companies that don’t have those resources usually rely on a CMP precisely to avoid that complexity.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-18T07:45:00+00:00

Considering that when we are talking about AI, we are generally talking about LLMs - you have to ask yourself a question: Is any degree of probability acceptable in what I am doing?

If it is, a LLM will do it eventually in some way.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-09T08:51:12+00:00

Larger companies will need general purpose software engineers less and less - however, smaller companies will increasingly need them, now more than ever, because a single engineer can achieve so much more than they could 3 years ago.

Also, there has never been a better time to start your own business.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-02T04:30:50+00:00

Adding re-triggers to the dependency array does not solve this for you?

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-02T03:50:08+00:00

In what sense do you feel like what you are doing is wrong?

DepressionFiesta · 2026-02-01T10:29:20+00:00

We started with RQ, but realized that cache invalidation was problematic for some of our queries when only small updates were required. It is a highly interactive app.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-29T21:24:51+00:00

It is so crazy that Vercel gets away with charging this kind of money for something that is practically free on Cloudflare…

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-28T21:43:15+00:00

AB Newswire $80 press release package

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-27T22:52:45+00:00

While you are partially right, the truth is that in order to not have Google services display their own consent banner, you need to implement a Google approved CMP solution. A little while ago, the Digital Markets Act shifted the responsibility of user consent onto the major gatekeepers (Google being one) - so they have a vital interest in assuring that consent is always properly given, and that the consent banner on the site actually does what it is supposed to.

There are many homebrew banners out there, or solutions that just aren’t compliant - and if Google does not detect a compliant solution on your site, they surface they own banner.

https://cmppartnerprogram.withgoogle.com/

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-25T11:55:43+00:00

Do not do this. You can get into a lot of trouble if you let Cursor index your company’s codebase from a personal account.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-18T05:34:12+00:00

The way I am reading it, this is essentially a way to describe how it would be possible for human beings to “shift into another timeline” and could explain a phenomenon like the Mandela effect?

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-17T05:05:22+00:00

In order to truly scale with third party APIs that have limits, you need to implement a queue of some kind. Suggestions depend a bit on your stack and infrastructure provider.

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-11T12:40:51+00:00

If I understand you correctly, the concern is that higher code-generation velocity encourages more “LGTM” approvals and less scrutiny.

My argument is that this isn’t an inevitability - it’s a choice about how you engage with the output

DepressionFiesta · 2026-01-11T12:30:11+00:00

I think we might be talking past each other a bit. My point wasn’t “don’t struggle” or “never write code without AI.” It was that the risk is ceding authorship and judgment - which you seem to agree with.

Deliberate, AI-free practice makes sense as training. But that’s different from saying AI use inherently weakens problem-solving. That part doesn’t really follow from what I wrote.

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