tags: [career, buildinpublic, ai, indiedev]
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That's the point. i've been shipping weekend projects for years - trading bots, nft marketplaces, ios apps, garmin watchfaces, e-commerce platforms, language learning tools. most fail. some stick. but they all get me excited
The problem? i was building in silence. i'd spend three months on a project, launch to zero users, then move on to the next thing. rinse and repeat. the code was there. the products worked. but nobody knew they existed
What Changed in 2025-2026
Something clicked when i saw the numbers. 82% of developers now use ai tools to write code. microsoft and google announced that a quarter of their code is ai-generated. cursor went from zero to 18% market share in 18 months
The thing i spent years mastering - writing clean, efficient code - became a commodity almost overnight. here's what i realized: the code i write matters less than the people who care about it. the competitive advantage - the moat - isn't technical skill anymore
Read more: https://jovweb.dev/blog/2026-coding-commoditization-audience-moat
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