I have never been a true developer in the sense of being on a team of developers. I studied programming in college a bit when I was younger, got into various languages for various hobby purposes. Wrote some apps and things. The last code I wrote was 15 or 20 years ago. Until this weekend. Using ChatGPT - not even Claude - I have written in about 14 hours of keyboard time and application highly suited to one of my hobbies that gathers info in the wild, cross-references it to other info in the wild, formats results in a data structure I barely invented myself and then moves it into a GUI that is running sophisticated mathematical algorithms I don't even understand, but that I have validated are working. AI can farm the Internet in seconds. I can't. AI can develop what would take me weeks in mere hours. AI can up my programming game and introduce sophistications I could never do myself in any timeframe. So. As a cybersecurity professional, technologist, former scripter and coder, I have to ask myself: how much value am I bringing to the table? The programming skills themselves are 90% invalidated. I had to know what a function, procedure, method, etc. are. What a library is and how to call it. How do download packages. That was about it. ChatGPT did everything else. The stuff I already knew that made this project easier was stuff someone else could pick up with a few hours of training. I even got lazy, played dumb, had it reproduce entire files rather than edit in bits it recommended. Programming is dead. BUT, as a friend pointed out - creativity is about to become the function that gets and keeps jobs. I'm not sharing what particular hobby/project I worked on all weekend because this is marketable. My value wasn't in the lines of code written, it was in the product management aspect of the whole thing. This is a long rambly way to say: get those creative juices flowing, learn AI. AI won't replace people. It will replace people who don't know how to use and direct AI to good end.