Hello world again.
I'm back here after almost a year. Why am I here? This is our only community for the devs. If we're not talking here, who will.
Alright lets just start, today the most used programming language is not React, not Python. It's English, it's Spanish, it's Hindi. Am i loosing my mind or saying lies? No, it's been 6 months since i edited a single of code. As you know from my last post, I started Instantdm - Instagram comment automation and DM automation tool, it's a manychat alternative. in the last 12 months we moved so up, we got 30,000+ customers, we process over 5 to 6 million automation every single day. just imagine the effort we need to put to maintain and write code for new features, or to fix the bug, or just to understand where the bug is comming from, Where's the logic failing. It will take a whole lot of time, tonnes of time. But no, it's not taking any time, everything is done in seconds, or in minutes, even a complex features is done in minutes including planning,development and testing. Only part i'm taking more time is spending the time to review the code. some people are making that also with AI, i'm not doing that atleast for next few more months.
The point here, these all changed in last 3 to 4 months, i dont want to code after the claude 5hrs window usage or weekly usage. . To be frank i dont want to code itself. Becuase i always think it's always me vs the compiler vs the logic. I always want me to win, everytime my compiler fails or my logic fails, the edge cases fails, that put fire in me to code that's what the good old days of coding atleast for me.
I think myself as a creator, just imagine you can create anything. I'm not just into website development; my journey started as a simple developer. I learned ethical hacking; I learned game development. I learnt chatbot development. You remember RASA NLU and ALLEN NLP? Then I learnt ML/AI. Then Server, DEVOPS. At last, only I learnt web development just for the job shake and App development.
Today, you no need to learn anything, all you need is a $20 / claude / codex or free antigravity subscription if you're in india. The coding is super easy. And the reason I mentioned English, Spanish and hindi as the most used languages is, people wont even type. They talk; the era of Speech to task is starting up. I'm finding it very hard to type this blog, how many words this will be few hundred? But I remember I enjoyed typing a file with 5000 lines of code, multiple files within that project. But everything is changed. I can even talk and it can write this blog; i just want to write, and see how many lines i can go.
But this change of programming is good or bad?
Both, lets talks about good first.
The good is for everyone who wants to create something; they can create it. No searching for a devloepr, freelandcer, looking at their review, cheating, loop back for changes, everything takes ton of time, now everything in minutes. it's like everyone having a personal coding freelancer.
The Bad, Since everyone can create, there's no need of developers, almost.
You may argue, here's the example we face everyday:
Food - We all cook at home, but still hotels exist; all are running profitably, at least almost all of them. The question When someone what eat at hotel/restraunats, at what situations they want to eat at hotel. what is the makes the people come to hotel again and again, what is the secrect recipe, is it taste or is it ambiance?
Now i ask you a question, why will a client/job need to come to you? What secret do you have? Figure out that secret. Comment it down what make you unique and people wants you here.
And one point, Today the AI is not good, not cheap. But at the end of 2027. this will be coompletly changing, i remeber a post from elon musk at least it named from elon musk, he stated, "in 3 years AI will be everywhere, you got only 3 years". And recent incided of chatgpt and hugging face AI being autonomous are completely opening up new understanding and new versions. of the AI in Coding and development.
Is it scary? just remeber you became a god, and can create anything in the system now, you can build your own OS, you can build your own Browser, You can build your own AI. I'm not kidding, these AI companies pull data from each other and improving themself on each others. you can also do that, take qween, mimo, kimi open weight and you can also build your own AI. Now the moat is not Code, it's the brain you have, it's the spark you have.
When i first joind my job/intenship back in 2019, before that i was thinking coding is everything within few weeks, i understood that is just a tool, it can be replaced if anything comes better. to be frank, it may looking from outside coding is everything, whithout that its not possible, yes that's true, but coders are one easily replacble in the company, all you need to do is just understand the code, you have the full doumnets for everything about the previous code, and you need to just follow the rule and create it, how simple its right? that i understood, within few week of my first internship. All im here saying is if this changed to this, then this will change to something else. We're just thinking of people will create their own code, no not just like that.
There's a whole space for the open source community, open source tools are managed by and developed by skillfull persons no change in that, but are they as skill full as all the coproate top FAANG network engineers, yes they will be but not all. since now code is not the moat, lot things will be open sourced, means less code. every one can reuse whatever they want and create launch their own version. Do they need developer for this no? why the hell they need deveeloper, they can just have 20$ or 200$ subscription for the eniter month and use the AI fine tune it and deploy it.
We many think we need a scalabel archittecture a developer needs to be their, we need to rethink , if things are like these, then lot of things will go as on permises. means, they no need to scale at seconds, everything will be predictable traffic or usage. This doensn't mean a no developers, it means, low devleopers. or an autonomous agent.
What you guys think? just comment it, or share your thoughts, i may be correct, or completely wrong, Just engage it in the comments.
Ohho regarding, work life balance, With AI coding eventhough i have claude max 20x, chatgpt codex pro, anitgravity pro, kiro pro, grok pro, custom AI agent (Hermes + mimo + minimax). i'm not developing crazy features and unwanted stuff, so my coding is going less, since everything in minutes i'm having more time i other tasks. Marketing , content creation, other things.
I'm still working automating , multiple simple tasks, Every single day. lets stay in touch bye...
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