Hey Juan, I completely agree. I have started to mentally fortify myself for my own safety. I skip panic discussions entirely now and focus on self-development, improving how I learn.
I really relate to this. As a dev with ~4 years of experience (relatively new to the field), I feel like my whole world is ending. I love coding and I love delivering meaningful results that improve peoples lives. Now I am left wondering how I find purpose in my work. I used to pride myself on my ability to tackle hard problems and work out a solution for them. Now that doesn't seem to matter. Some of my best days as a developer were the ones where I spent hours diving deep into a problem. Reading documentation, running tests, learning new approaches. Those hours of research and problem solving taught me lessons that I could have never learned otherwise. I am afraid this field might no longer have a use for someone like me. I am also not sure where to go or what to do.
This is exactly what I wanted to convey, without trying to be just causing fear. I’m still hopeful, that our industry will just change without becoming obsolete, and trying to be on the right side of the curve when that happens. But I still worry a lot.
Hey Juan, I completely agree. I have started to mentally fortify myself for my own safety. I skip panic discussions entirely now and focus on self-development, improving how I learn.
Yes, keep hustling, building, and try to provide value to the world
I really relate to this. As a dev with ~4 years of experience (relatively new to the field), I feel like my whole world is ending. I love coding and I love delivering meaningful results that improve peoples lives. Now I am left wondering how I find purpose in my work. I used to pride myself on my ability to tackle hard problems and work out a solution for them. Now that doesn't seem to matter. Some of my best days as a developer were the ones where I spent hours diving deep into a problem. Reading documentation, running tests, learning new approaches. Those hours of research and problem solving taught me lessons that I could have never learned otherwise. I am afraid this field might no longer have a use for someone like me. I am also not sure where to go or what to do.
This is exactly what I wanted to convey, without trying to be just causing fear. I’m still hopeful, that our industry will just change without becoming obsolete, and trying to be on the right side of the curve when that happens. But I still worry a lot.
build open source tools for the ppl w me
https://github.com/npc-worldwide/npcsh
https://github.com/npc-worldwide/incognide
Not gonna like, that looks interesting! I would love to work more on open source