Daniel Leach

If your job can be performed entirely through a laptop, you should assume AI is coming for it.

AI has created a new kind of entrepreneur. Someone who can build an entire software company in a weekend. Unfortunately, they're also competing against 50,000 other people who can build the exact same company that weekend.

Something feels fundamentally wrong about AI companies spending billions to automate human labor while telling the humans not to worry. What exactly do they expect the end result to look like? More employees?

We're approaching a point where someone can build an entire application without understanding a single line of code. That's incredible. Now imagine that same application handling your medical records, finances, or personal information. Still excited?

Imagine spending 15 years becoming an exceptional software engineer. Then some guy with zero programming experience builds an app that makes more money than your annual salary using Claude. And people tell you to stop being bitter.

Companies stopped hiring juniors to save money. What are the odds that in ten years they'll pay anything for the seniors they never trained?

"Self-taught" used to be a flex. Now everyone's taught by the same chatbot. Wild times...

We spent a decade telling everyone to learn to code. What are we pivoting to now?

The 10,000 hour rule aged worse than anyone expected.

Your kids will never understand why you were proud of knowing how to do it the hard way...

Curious... What is everyone using for their day to day AI tool these days? - Codex - Claude - Cursor - Other? I, myself, am using a combination of the top 3.

Serious question for developers and agencies: How are you justifying your pricing to clients who think AI can build what they need in a few hours? You can explain experience, architecture, security, and maintainability all day. But how do you sell that to someone convinced a $20 AI subscription can replace you?

There's a special kind of quiet when a client says "we'll just use AI for that" about the work you're proudest of.

Your 10,000 hours of mastery are now someone's 10 second prompt. #feelsbadman

We're watching the value of human expertise collapse in real time, and somehow we're supposed to be excited about it...

Nobody prepares you for the psychological impact of watching AI casually outperform skills you sacrificed years of your life to develop.

In the age of AI, we are all building on rented land. Every day a few more of us get the boot.

“Just learn AI” is quickly becoming the new “just learn to code.” We should probably be careful repeating the same mistake.

Uhhhh what? Not complaining, but super confusing lol.

We're entering an era where we can build virtually anything. And somehow, I've never felt less motivated to build. I never thought this would be me.. but here we are.

The day AI costs what it actually costs to run, a lot of one person companies find out what their margin really was.