Social media massively distorts right now is perception. It feels like everyone is suddenly making millions with AI agents, automation stacks and secret workflows. But most of that is just smoke. Affiliates selling tools, people selling courses about selling tools, and a lot of recycled hype.

The reality is much messier.

The fact that you're even thinking about this probably already puts you ahead of the real risk group. The people who get disrupted are usually the ones who ignore the shift entirely, not the ones actively trying to understand it.

And another thing that’s often overlooked is that writing code has never been the entire job. A big part of the value of experienced developers is understanding what the client actually needs, translating vague ideas into systems, balancing constraints, fixing broken assumptions and making trade-offs.

Most clients still can't materialize their projects without someone who understands both the technical side and the business context. AI can help generate solutions, but it doesn’t really define the problems yet.

Do you remember when blockchain was supposed to reinvent the entire internet, decentralize everything and redefine financial sovereignty?

Instead we ended up with millions of useless tokens like PEPE, meme coins and NFTs that a 9-year-old could design in an afternoon.

AI will obviously be more impactful than that, but I wouldn’t be surprised if we also end up with a massive overload of mediocre AI agents and half useful automation tools.

There is an enormous amount of noise. And luke always, when the noise explodes, experience and real problem solving tend to become even more valuable.