i can feel the changes drastically after i cahnge to remote work. now i not just a software engineer, i now have to do everything from design to deploy and im a one man team. really quite challenging for me because vibe coding doesn't help much and im broke to use any paid AI.
Ingo Steinke is a Berlin-based senior web developer focusing on front-end web development to create and improve websites and make the web more accessible, sustainable, and user-friendly.
Agree. The "age of AI" is just a simplified monicker hiding more complex changes in society that have been going on for longer already. Take any 2016 post about algorithms and replace "algorithm" with "AI". Chat bots, automization, remote work and globalization make many people spend their work isolated in front of a computer or a factory machine the whole day, while more people actually worked together with other people in earlier times.
Paid AI doesn't live up to its promise. Most services let you test paid plan previews and you can see they're still flawed and prone to errors nevertheless. It's just that you get more computation time and don't rapidly run out of tokens. But if your one man "team" has different team roles, they might all have their own accounts and email adresses and browser profiles for sure? Thus each one of them has another fresh free AI session when their "coworker" ran out of tokens? Just an idea so you can better evaluate what you are missing out or not.
I can relate to the difficulties of faster context switching and the urge to become competent in more domains, not just software engineering. I would say that your competitive advantage is that you can understand software more deeply, being a software engineer by trade, so you can leverage this to build higher quality software and maintain it better over time.
I appreciate that you are adapting and expanding your knowledge. Curious, what is the hardest new skill you are learning? Design, marketing, or other?
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i can feel the changes drastically after i cahnge to remote work. now i not just a software engineer, i now have to do everything from design to deploy and im a one man team. really quite challenging for me because vibe coding doesn't help much and im broke to use any paid AI.
Agree. The "age of AI" is just a simplified monicker hiding more complex changes in society that have been going on for longer already. Take any 2016 post about algorithms and replace "algorithm" with "AI". Chat bots, automization, remote work and globalization make many people spend their work isolated in front of a computer or a factory machine the whole day, while more people actually worked together with other people in earlier times.
Paid AI doesn't live up to its promise. Most services let you test paid plan previews and you can see they're still flawed and prone to errors nevertheless. It's just that you get more computation time and don't rapidly run out of tokens. But if your one man "team" has different team roles, they might all have their own accounts and email adresses and browser profiles for sure? Thus each one of them has another fresh free AI session when their "coworker" ran out of tokens? Just an idea so you can better evaluate what you are missing out or not.
I can relate to the difficulties of faster context switching and the urge to become competent in more domains, not just software engineering. I would say that your competitive advantage is that you can understand software more deeply, being a software engineer by trade, so you can leverage this to build higher quality software and maintain it better over time.
I appreciate that you are adapting and expanding your knowledge. Curious, what is the hardest new skill you are learning? Design, marketing, or other?