A lot has happened since my last message. I take a look at the previous posting date and it says the 10th of June. I'm baffled by the work that I've done since that date. More than a year's worth of work was made. I've got 5 different agents running on 3 different projects and I still have the time to write up my thoughts like this. Last year I would've been deep into code, unable to be disturbed. Now it sits comfortably on my past work and writes code in my preferred style. I'm reminded of how the airfryer was a hated product and became loved after a few years of grace. I feel that it won't be much different with this.
I think it's important that we guide the process as experts, so I feel that programmers will not be phased out in the slightest yet. The uneasy feeling of becoming obsolete as a software developer has evaporated completely. It's as if I can finally say "I'm in" instead of keeping my watchful gaze on every new development. The doubt has molded completely into "What should we pick up next?" I think that a logical next step is to get rid of all the tedious work so we can all smooth-sail towards new ideas that pop up left and right with the extra time on our hands, like writing this blog article.
But we're not there yet. Something is still gnawing at me. One of the projects that I've worked on involved graphics. Generated graphics. As a musician I look at Suno and how it fails to mix up wildly different subgenres successfully. Or how it cannot come up with innovative sound design that is often found in modern Dubstep and Neurofunk. It's almost as if it's permanently stuck somewhere in 2010 regarding that aspect. So what is the link with graphics in this? It's something I am terrible at and I simply do not have the money to hire a world-class artist for this work. So instead of sitting quietly, doing nothing, as everyone in graphics is taking my job as a programmer, can I really cook up something that is as timeless as the code I wrote 15 years ago? It's okay if everyone is a programmer now, but not okay if I create something meaningful to me? I think it's time that we no longer let others dictate what we can and cannot do. It's like the person that wrote the article about the automobile being something that could never replace a horse, or people being afraid of trains. It's here to stay, and we're not creating brainrot videos with it, which take a lot more processing power than a generated 2D SVG image.
A lot of autonomy returns to the individual who is empowered by this new technology, and not all those who wander are lost. People think they all have a say in how things should be done when a lot of geeks and nerds have been running stuff that was previously unattainable and not very understandable. Now that it has hit the mainstream we can all complain about it, but it's just like radio and TV. You turn it off, shut it out and you just do your thing, fully in your own energy and power. So power to those that seize the future right here and now.
Power to Those Who Seize the Future
A reflection on AI, creative autonomy, and the changing role of software developers in a future that is already here.

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