September 15, 2025 • 20 mins
I’ve been skeptical of AI for a long time - tired of the hype, the slop, and the talk about replacing developers. But as a one-person business, I can’t ignore its potential. In this episode, I break down why I’m doubling down on AI for the next few months: testing its limits, exploring real use cases, and seeing if it actually makes my life easier… or if I’ll end up saying I was right to be skeptical all along.
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Don Hansen (00:00):
The next few months I'm going to double down on AI.
So what does that mean and whyam I doing it?
If you've watched my contentpreviously you've looked at my
posts on LinkedIn, twitter,whatever you'll see that I'm
pretty skeptical.
I am very much an AI skeptic.
I have genuinely beendisappointed, given the amount
(00:21):
of hype that I see for AI, andI've been snarky.
I've been a little bit snarky,right, and I want to share why
and then kind of what changed Inthe dev world.
There has been a big push forthis belief that AI is going to
replace a lot of developers, andI've seen a ton of people say
(00:43):
that.
But when I dig into who thesepeople are, what positions they
hold, a lot of them aren'tdevelopers.
It's a lot of people that wantto replace developers, whether
they have a poor workingrelationship with developers,
whether they're envious, youknow.
Sometimes it's just junior devsthat just didn't really dive
deep enough, they really didn'texcel at the job search, they
(01:05):
gave up and so they're just kindof miserable about it, right,
and they're happy thatdevelopers are getting replaced.
And then you have productmanagers that don't want to work
with developers.
You have folks who don't wantto pay developers.
Developers cost a lot of money,and so there are people
genuinely excited aboutdevelopers getting replaced or
(01:29):
at least having to hire fewerdevelopers or interact with
fewer developers.
And then there are some peoplethat just quite frankly want to
put the minimum effort possibleto create amazing things that
developers put a shitload oftime into, to be able to build
up the skills to do what they do, to create the architecture
(01:53):
that they create, to be able toscale that and maintain that.
And I understand it from kindof like an indie hacker, single
person, business sort ofperspective, right.
But I think there has been adisrespect like just kind of
like a vibe that I got, wherepeople were genuinely
(02:16):
disrespecting the amount ofeffort that went into really
building up their craft, and I'malso worried that it promoted
this idea where deep learningisn't as valuable because now we
have AI.
There are a lot of things thatbother me about this major push
(02:36):
for AI replacing people whoactually give a shit to build up
their craft, and that genuinelymakes me sad.
But my algorithms are kind ofscrewed.
It could just be what I'm shown, but I feel like just listening
to other people in the techindustry, I feel like I'm not
alone in this, so that reallyput me off.
(02:58):
Um, it also enables indiehackers to create a lot of even
shittier code that like like Idon't care on the front end, but
insecure code on the back end.
When you have users payingusers, that makes me sad for
their users.
I don't like when people's datais compromised.
It doesn't feel good when ithappens to me, and I feel like
(03:20):
I've just seen some indiehackers just not prioritize
security enough.
Right, there are a lot ofserverless solutions that really
could be leaned on and with anLM integrating stuff around the
serverless solution.
Also, while you do properresearch to figure out what
(03:44):
controls you want or whatpermissions you need to set to
make a serverless solutionsecure, I've just seen so many
indie hackers that just don'tcare about that.
Right, as a developer, we'vebeen really programmed to care
about that and how important itis, and now we're kind of just
enabling indie hackers to justcontinue to create bad habits
with things like vibe coding.
(04:05):
Right, I love indie hackersthat really try to get code
savvy, build fundamentals anduse LLMs to kind of help them
along.
That is fantastic.
But you know when?
I think we've all seen some ofthe results of vibe coding and
it feels like developers are theonly people that give a shit
about that, and I'm also tiredof AI founders that just
(04:28):
continue to hype it up over and,over and over and over.
More than what it is it's atool.
Different LMs are tools tosolve different problems, and it
feels like a lot of foundersare just hyping it up to
essentially gain investmentmoney, and I've seen a lot of
(04:49):
developers recognize thelimitations, but it just feels
like there's so many people thatwon't acknowledge the
limitations and that's justirritating to see all the time.
Why can't we just have anhonest conversation about the
tools that we're building andthat we can use and what their
capability is versus you knowwhat their limitation is.
(05:12):
Why can't we just have thatconversation most of the time?
No, it always has to transforminto some inaccurate overhype or
just like a tremendous amountof hate.
I mean this goes from theopposite end.
It's just like completelyshitting on AI and saying it has
no capability, no use case inthe world.
It's like this is just socialmedia.
(05:35):
I understand this, but we seethis all day long.
I don't know about you, but Icannot get it off my algorithm.
With LinkedIn.
You can make fun of me forusing LinkedIn.
I don't care.
I have more followers onLinkedIn than I do Twitter.
If I had more followers onTwitter, I'd use that more, but
I cannot change my LinkedInalgorithm.
(05:55):
It's just nonstop.
Ai Speaking of which, everyonethat continues to promote AI
slop like.
I don't want to see a kitten golike, do a one on one with a
shark in and win that fight.
That's stupid.
I don't want to see bunnieshopping on a trampoline.
(06:15):
I don't want to see a cat flyinto the outer space and just
land on Mars before Elon Muskdoes.
I don't care about that.
I am so sick of ai slop.
Ai content I like.
Whenever I come across it onyoutube, I just cringe.
I hate that.
I.
I like listening to humans.
(06:36):
Is that such a weird thing?
I like just feeling like I'mlearning and connecting with
other human beings and itdoesn't feel soulless.
I just I'm tired of the AI slot, right.
So I had all this irritationbuilt up because people have
just been rabid about theirobsession with the advancement
(07:03):
of AI and it's just become anannoyance and deterred people
from even seeing the real valueof AI is is.
I just feel like we can havemore meaningful conversations.
And I have you know me, justlike shitting on AI is probably
not contributing in a meaningfulway either.
But, um, anyways, I had to getpast all that.
(07:24):
It took me a while, it took mea long while, and so here's the
reason why I wanted to justadopt this mindset to just like
double down on AI for the nextthree months.
As a one person business, I have, like I've watched a ton of
implementation videos of howdifferent creators have used AI.
(07:45):
Some, like I think you know,just creates AI slop.
Some.
That I think is very useful.
Right, combining and augmentingwhat makes you great as a
creator with AI can actuallyjust accelerate your message
getting out there.
Right, as a one person business, it is just fantastic.
(08:06):
It's really useful.
I can't pay a designer.
I can't pay a developer to workwith me.
I can't pay a video editor.
I don't have that kind of money.
As it stands right now, I'mbarely paying my bills.
I am still at that point andthis is kind of a dream I'm able
to pay my bills with what I do.
But, man, is it tough to grow.
(08:27):
I feel like I keep hittingplateau after plateau after
plateau, and, as I've beenwatching a ton of content
creators use AI effectively, aton of developers using AI
effectively.
I am truly missing out oneverything using the right tool
to finally push past some ofthese plateaus.
(08:51):
I am someone that likes variety.
I like accomplishing a bunch ofthings.
I learned a bunch of things.
I'm reading a bunch of booksall the time.
I'm trying to grow in differentways and using tools to help me
in different areas.
With that, um will really saveme a bunch of time, even just
like editing down for shorts andstuff like that to be able to
post on tiktok, youtube andinstagram.
(09:11):
I don't have the time to dothat.
I like I.
I want to do course creationright now, I want to code right
now and I want to create contentright now.
Those three things ai can helpsignificantly with in different
parts of that process, and I'mjust not doing it.
I don't like I can't just likeallow my hatred to prevent me
(09:33):
from actually utilizing it tomake my life easier, and I hope
you guys are finding ways tomake your life easier and able
to accomplish a lot more with aiwhile still keeping the parts
that you love about.
You know, like diving into thecraft that you love.
Like.
You can use it to supplement,you can use it to augment.
(09:55):
Don't use it to replace theparts that you love, like that.
That's the secret to ai and I Iunderstand this secret has been
out for a while.
People have been shouting itbut, like you are not the
loudest people on the internetsaying this.
There's a lot more slop thatpeople have to get through and I
think people are just like kindof exhausted from a lot of the
ai posts.
(10:15):
To be honest, they just don'tcare.
At this point it's like they'rethey're just gonna kind of be
critical of it.
They're just annoyed at it, andI'm seeing a lot of developers
like this appropriately so.
But this is the dev space.
Maybe I'm more cynical in myperspective of how devs are kind
of taking AI, because maybe thepeople that I follow I don't
(10:37):
know I could be biased with thatbut I've watched a ton of
videos.
I'm really impressed and, to behonest, I am fascinated by it.
I really am Just going throughor watching N8n workflows and
like thinking about, well, maybethere are certain things I can
code and customize, but likethis idea of like automating so
much that previous like toolscouldn't quite automate.
(10:59):
Um, they didn't really havelike some of the reasoning to be
able to, uh, have thatflexibility that you need.
Like I'm just fascinated by it.
I like it's not a good purchaseright now, but I'd love to buy
like a 390 and just run like agbt oss or something like that
and see how it does with thegentic coding.
(11:20):
I'm just kind of curious, like Iwant to try stuff out and I
want to see the limitations.
I don't want to keep talkingshit about AI without actually
using it right and I feel likeI've kind of just been a
bystander.
So I actually thoroughly wantto test this.
I want to become moreknowledgeable about it and also
I'm fascinated about it.
(11:41):
I've gotten over my gripe witha lot of the AI slop on the
internet and all the noise and Ifeel like I'm more focused on
what I can use AI for for my ownworkflow and I am going to
double down on it and I am goingto use it in every possible way
that I can and I want to see ifit actually improves my life or
not.
I want to see if it improves mybusiness and in three months
(12:04):
maybe you see a video where Isay I was wrong.
Maybe you see a video where Isay I was wrong.
Ai is complete shit.
Maybe I do that, but I want totry it.
So just a few ways that I'mgoing to use AI.
And you know, this might notapply to you If you're a content
creator or dev or like oneperson just trying to run a
business.
This might apply to you, but Imean, there are a ton of ways
(12:25):
you can use it.
I want to aggregate a bunch oftech news articles.
I feel like I spend a lot oftime trying to keep up with
stuff and I don't really createcontent around it, but I like I
consume a lot and I try to keepup in the tech industry and
relevant areas that I care aboutor that I think I should care
about in three months or sixmonths.
I think if I had a tool to beable to aggregate that and
(12:47):
summarize some certain things, Iwould feel better and more
confident with utilizing my timeto create content around it and
talk about it.
And I kind of want to aggregatea bunch of questions like the
biggest concerns, the biggestcommon gripes from junior
developers.
To be honest, most developersare not building the skill that
(13:09):
they need to to be competitive.
Like I, I kind of know thequestion, so I don't really dive
into it, but I think it's stillimportant to have like a
consensus of like where juniordevelopers are at, and, as I've
kind of like pulled away, um,from creating content lately,
I've kind of lost touch of that.
I still mentor people, I stilltalk to junior developers, but
(13:32):
not in the capacity that I usedto.
So I feel like I can use a toolto aggregate a bunch of data
that is just going to keep me upto date without me putting in a
lot of time to be able to dothat.
Right, that's an easy use casefor AI and repurposing my
content.
Like I kind of just likeranting I have a list right here
, um, I'm fine with that, but Idon't want to create a blog post
(13:55):
from it.
I don't want to create likeshorts from it and like posts on
LinkedIn and Twitter, and likeI don't have time to do all that
, there's no reason not to useAI to repurpose my content.
What I want to do is figure outa way for it to truly utilize
my voice and any content that'screated.
(14:16):
It sounds like it came just forme.
I'm going to approve all of it.
I'm going to create my owncustom content without AI you
won't know if it comes for me orAI.
I want to be able to utilize AIin the right way to create a
lot more valuable insight andinformation for people.
(14:36):
I don't post anything.
I'm fucking lazy.
I feel like there's so muchcontent I could be pushing out
there and I just don't have thetime because I keep diving into
so much that I'm curious aboutand I'm interested about.
Have the time because I keepdiving into so much that is I'm
curious about and I'm interestedabout, and so now I have more
time to dive into that stuff andI can kind of just talk about
it in a video and then I don'thave to worry about all the
repurposing.
(14:57):
I just don't want to repurpose.
It's, it's a pain.
I don't want to do it.
But also I'm creating coursesnow.
Um, I don't know when thiscourse is going to be released,
but the nest nest course forScribble should be live pretty
soon and then I'm going on toother courses.
Uh, but I like AI was fantasticfor auditing my course.
(15:17):
Um, it's auditing kind of a newcourse that I'm building as
well, and I don't want it tobuild my course content, I want
it to check it.
It can automate a bunch andthere's way more than I'm going
to utilize it for, and I'll talkmore about it and see how it
goes.
But another thing is coding.
Now, I have been so critical ofusing AI for coding again
(15:39):
because I just keep seeing, well, this is where, like, I'm
seeing developers like gooddevelopers that are starting to
like just admit that theirskills are atrophying because
they're overusing AI.
It's a, it's addictive, itactually, with targeted prompts,
um, in like proper contextbeing set up and just limited
scope, it can do it.
(16:00):
Just, I think I need to testthis, but it I think it could do
really well with flushing outfeatures at a much faster pace.
And I think there's this battledevelopers have, where they
have to limit their use.
They have to be careful abouttheir dependency.
They have to really think abouthow they're going to utilize ai
so they don't their skillsdon't start atrophying.
(16:22):
That's a real concern and thisisn't just the dev world.
A lot of people need to realizethis, like we all.
All the different parts of yourmind just look at it, like
different muscles that arereally good at different tasks.
When you don't utilize themuscle, you let it atrophy
because you're outsourcing thatcritical thinking to AI.
(16:45):
That muscle atrophies.
You need to use it right.
So I want to experiment withhaving.
I want to see what, like cursorand different models can do.
I want it to build out afeature I want to lay out like
different conventions.
So I'm building applications inNest and Angular right now and
I have my own CSS conventions Iwanted to follow and I want to
(17:07):
see if I can outline thingsperfectly, prompt it perfectly
and keep the scope small enoughso it can start building out
features.
And I want to see what itproduces.
I want to see what differentLLMs produce.
I want to see if it speeds itup.
Then eventually maybe I canlike trigger some background
tasks for it to build some stuffwhile I'm building my stuff,
but I like part of the week Iwant to also code without it,
(17:31):
right?
I want to find that perfectbalance where I feel like I'm
still growing as a developer andmy skills aren't definitely
skills aren't atrophying, right.
I want to test this out insteadof just shitting on people
creating an over-dependence forAI and again, I do that.
It's not like shitting on theperson, instead of just shitting
on people, creating an overdependence for ai and again I do
that.
It's not like shitting on theperson, it's shitting on the
idea that we should create thisover reliance for ai.
(17:52):
That's the danger.
And like people just don'tacknowledge it, or if they
acknowledge it, they're like,yeah, it could happen, but like
it makes me faster and you know,my product manager wants me to
get this feature out faster orlike and that's the big concern,
right, as developers, we'vealways had to push back.
Just even with code quality,even with reducing technical
(18:14):
debt, we've always had to pushback.
We've had to slow it down a bit, we've had to overestimate and
(18:36):
all we're doing is making worseconditions for ourselves to
basically have to followunrealistic expectations, unless
you create an unrealisticdependency on AI.
And that really worries me themost, because I know how
stressful being a dev can be andI'm thankful that I can just
build my own stuff now and Idon't have to build someone
else's dream up.
I'm very grateful for that.
But you know, a lot of peopleare developers that work very
hard and they put in a lot ofhours and I'm friends with them
(18:57):
and I genuinely feel sad to seegood developers that have really
good intentions and want to dogood for their company just
continue to burn themselves outbecause those expectations
continue to increase andincrease and increase because
developers let that happen.
I know it's not always easy topush back with that stuff, but
man does AI create a reallyinteresting and dangerous
(19:20):
scenario for developers in thefuture if we don't start being
more critical about how we useit in our workflow.
So those are some of mythoughts.
I genuinely am just fascinatedwith seeing what I can use AI
for and I want to talk aboutthat experience.
I want to share how it goes.
(19:41):
I want to share what I thinkabout it, what I hate about it,
and maybe kind of just develop anew perspective for AI, because
I think the future of goodconversation around AI is
utilizing it in a way again thataugments our ability, that just
(20:02):
increases it, or it supplementssome of our weaknesses that we
don't really need to getstronger in necessarily.
Like I just don't care tomemorize regex I never will.
I just don't care about it.
Right, I've used tools to beable to generate that all the
time.
Hey, I can generate that for meand I think that's a good use
(20:22):
case for it, but I'm getting offtrack.
Anyways, I'm going to kind ofdive into it.
I want to learn a lot moreabout LLMs.
I actually Scrum has a reallyinteresting AI engineer track
that I think I'm going to gothrough.
Right.
We're affiliated with them.
Might as well check it out, andit's actually a lot deeper than
(20:43):
I thought.
And kind of just setting up aworkflow and memory and a ton of
stuff I don't even know aboutwith LLMs sounds fascinating.
So I'm going to actually learna hell of a lot more than I know
now and maybe I won't just betalking out of my ass.
The next few months I'm going to double down on AI.
So what does that mean and whyam I doing it?
If you've watched my contentpreviously you've looked at my
posts on LinkedIn, twitter,whatever you'll see that I'm
pretty skeptical.
I am very much an AI skeptic.
I have genuinely beendisappointed, given the amount
(00:21):
of hype that I see for AI, andI've been snarky.
I've been a little bit snarky,right, and I want to share why
and then kind of what changed Inthe dev world.
There has been a big push forthis belief that AI is going to
replace a lot of developers, andI've seen a ton of people say
(00:43):
that.
But when I dig into who thesepeople are, what positions they
hold, a lot of them aren'tdevelopers.
It's a lot of people that wantto replace developers, whether
they have a poor workingrelationship with developers,
whether they're envious, youknow.
Sometimes it's just junior devsthat just didn't really dive
deep enough, they really didn'texcel at the job search, they
(01:05):
gave up and so they're just kindof miserable about it, right,
and they're happy thatdevelopers are getting replaced.
And then you have productmanagers that don't want to work
with developers.
You have folks who don't wantto pay developers.
Developers cost a lot of money,and so there are people
genuinely excited aboutdevelopers getting replaced or
(01:29):
at least having to hire fewerdevelopers or interact with
fewer developers.
And then there are some peoplethat just quite frankly want to
put the minimum effort possibleto create amazing things that
developers put a shitload oftime into, to be able to build
up the skills to do what they do, to create the architecture
(01:53):
that they create, to be able toscale that and maintain that.
And I understand it from kindof like an indie hacker, single
person, business sort ofperspective, right.
But I think there has been adisrespect like just kind of
like a vibe that I got, wherepeople were genuinely
(02:16):
disrespecting the amount ofeffort that went into really
building up their craft, and I'malso worried that it promoted
this idea where deep learningisn't as valuable because now we
have AI.
There are a lot of things thatbother me about this major push
(02:36):
for AI replacing people whoactually give a shit to build up
their craft, and that genuinelymakes me sad.
But my algorithms are kind ofscrewed.
It could just be what I'm shown, but I feel like just listening
to other people in the techindustry, I feel like I'm not
alone in this, so that reallyput me off.
(02:58):
Um, it also enables indiehackers to create a lot of even
shittier code that like like Idon't care on the front end, but
insecure code on the back end.
When you have users payingusers, that makes me sad for
their users.
I don't like when people's datais compromised.
It doesn't feel good when ithappens to me, and I feel like
(03:20):
I've just seen some indiehackers just not prioritize
security enough.
Right, there are a lot ofserverless solutions that really
could be leaned on and with anLM integrating stuff around the
serverless solution.
Also, while you do properresearch to figure out what
(03:44):
controls you want or whatpermissions you need to set to
make a serverless solutionsecure, I've just seen so many
indie hackers that just don'tcare about that.
Right, as a developer, we'vebeen really programmed to care
about that and how important itis, and now we're kind of just
enabling indie hackers to justcontinue to create bad habits
with things like vibe coding.
(04:05):
Right, I love indie hackersthat really try to get code
savvy, build fundamentals anduse LLMs to kind of help them
along.
That is fantastic.
But you know when?
I think we've all seen some ofthe results of vibe coding and
it feels like developers are theonly people that give a shit
about that, and I'm also tiredof AI founders that just
(04:28):
continue to hype it up over and,over and over and over.
More than what it is it's atool.
Different LMs are tools tosolve different problems, and it
feels like a lot of foundersare just hyping it up to
essentially gain investmentmoney, and I've seen a lot of
(04:49):
developers recognize thelimitations, but it just feels
like there's so many people thatwon't acknowledge the
limitations and that's justirritating to see all the time.
Why can't we just have anhonest conversation about the
tools that we're building andthat we can use and what their
capability is versus you knowwhat their limitation is.
(05:12):
Why can't we just have thatconversation most of the time?
No, it always has to transforminto some inaccurate overhype or
just like a tremendous amountof hate.
I mean this goes from theopposite end.
It's just like completelyshitting on AI and saying it has
no capability, no use case inthe world.
It's like this is just socialmedia.
(05:35):
I understand this, but we seethis all day long.
I don't know about you, but Icannot get it off my algorithm.
With LinkedIn.
You can make fun of me forusing LinkedIn.
I don't care.
I have more followers onLinkedIn than I do Twitter.
If I had more followers onTwitter, I'd use that more, but
I cannot change my LinkedInalgorithm.
(05:55):
It's just nonstop.
Ai Speaking of which, everyonethat continues to promote AI
slop like.
I don't want to see a kitten golike, do a one on one with a
shark in and win that fight.
That's stupid.
I don't want to see bunnieshopping on a trampoline.
(06:15):
I don't want to see a cat flyinto the outer space and just
land on Mars before Elon Muskdoes.
I don't care about that.
I am so sick of ai slop.
Ai content I like.
Whenever I come across it onyoutube, I just cringe.
I hate that.
I.
I like listening to humans.
(06:36):
Is that such a weird thing?
I like just feeling like I'mlearning and connecting with
other human beings and itdoesn't feel soulless.
I just I'm tired of the AI slot, right.
So I had all this irritationbuilt up because people have
just been rabid about theirobsession with the advancement
(07:03):
of AI and it's just become anannoyance and deterred people
from even seeing the real valueof AI is is.
I just feel like we can havemore meaningful conversations.
And I have you know me, justlike shitting on AI is probably
not contributing in a meaningfulway either.
But, um, anyways, I had to getpast all that.
(07:24):
It took me a while, it took mea long while, and so here's the
reason why I wanted to justadopt this mindset to just like
double down on AI for the nextthree months.
As a one person business, I have, like I've watched a ton of
implementation videos of howdifferent creators have used AI.
(07:45):
Some, like I think you know,just creates AI slop.
Some.
That I think is very useful.
Right, combining and augmentingwhat makes you great as a
creator with AI can actuallyjust accelerate your message
getting out there.
Right, as a one person business, it is just fantastic.
(08:06):
It's really useful.
I can't pay a designer.
I can't pay a developer to workwith me.
I can't pay a video editor.
I don't have that kind of money.
As it stands right now, I'mbarely paying my bills.
I am still at that point andthis is kind of a dream I'm able
to pay my bills with what I do.
But, man, is it tough to grow.
(08:27):
I feel like I keep hittingplateau after plateau after
plateau, and, as I've beenwatching a ton of content
creators use AI effectively, aton of developers using AI
effectively.
I am truly missing out oneverything using the right tool
to finally push past some ofthese plateaus.
(08:51):
I am someone that likes variety.
I like accomplishing a bunch ofthings.
I learned a bunch of things.
I'm reading a bunch of booksall the time.
I'm trying to grow in differentways and using tools to help me
in different areas.
With that, um will really saveme a bunch of time, even just
like editing down for shorts andstuff like that to be able to
post on tiktok, youtube andinstagram.
(09:11):
I don't have the time to dothat.
I like I.
I want to do course creationright now, I want to code right
now and I want to create contentright now.
Those three things ai can helpsignificantly with in different
parts of that process, and I'mjust not doing it.
I don't like I can't just likeallow my hatred to prevent me
(09:33):
from actually utilizing it tomake my life easier, and I hope
you guys are finding ways tomake your life easier and able
to accomplish a lot more with aiwhile still keeping the parts
that you love about.
You know, like diving into thecraft that you love.
Like.
You can use it to supplement,you can use it to augment.
(09:55):
Don't use it to replace theparts that you love, like that.
That's the secret to ai and I Iunderstand this secret has been
out for a while.
People have been shouting itbut, like you are not the
loudest people on the internetsaying this.
There's a lot more slop thatpeople have to get through and I
think people are just like kindof exhausted from a lot of the
ai posts.
(10:15):
To be honest, they just don'tcare.
At this point it's like they'rethey're just gonna kind of be
critical of it.
They're just annoyed at it, andI'm seeing a lot of developers
like this appropriately so.
But this is the dev space.
Maybe I'm more cynical in myperspective of how devs are kind
of taking AI, because maybe thepeople that I follow I don't
(10:37):
know I could be biased with thatbut I've watched a ton of
videos.
I'm really impressed and, to behonest, I am fascinated by it.
I really am Just going throughor watching N8n workflows and
like thinking about, well, maybethere are certain things I can
code and customize, but likethis idea of like automating so
much that previous like toolscouldn't quite automate.
(10:59):
Um, they didn't really havelike some of the reasoning to be
able to, uh, have thatflexibility that you need.
Like I'm just fascinated by it.
I like it's not a good purchaseright now, but I'd love to buy
like a 390 and just run like agbt oss or something like that
and see how it does with thegentic coding.
(11:20):
I'm just kind of curious, like Iwant to try stuff out and I
want to see the limitations.
I don't want to keep talkingshit about AI without actually
using it right and I feel likeI've kind of just been a
bystander.
So I actually thoroughly wantto test this.
I want to become moreknowledgeable about it and also
I'm fascinated about it.
(11:41):
I've gotten over my gripe witha lot of the AI slop on the
internet and all the noise and Ifeel like I'm more focused on
what I can use AI for for my ownworkflow and I am going to
double down on it and I am goingto use it in every possible way
that I can and I want to see ifit actually improves my life or
not.
I want to see if it improves mybusiness and in three months
(12:04):
maybe you see a video where Isay I was wrong.
Maybe you see a video where Isay I was wrong.
Ai is complete shit.
Maybe I do that, but I want totry it.
So just a few ways that I'mgoing to use AI.
And you know, this might notapply to you If you're a content
creator or dev or like oneperson just trying to run a
business.
This might apply to you, but Imean, there are a ton of ways
(12:25):
you can use it.
I want to aggregate a bunch oftech news articles.
I feel like I spend a lot oftime trying to keep up with
stuff and I don't really createcontent around it, but I like I
consume a lot and I try to keepup in the tech industry and
relevant areas that I care aboutor that I think I should care
about in three months or sixmonths.
I think if I had a tool to beable to aggregate that and
(12:47):
summarize some certain things, Iwould feel better and more
confident with utilizing my timeto create content around it and
talk about it.
And I kind of want to aggregatea bunch of questions like the
biggest concerns, the biggestcommon gripes from junior
developers.
To be honest, most developersare not building the skill that
(13:09):
they need to to be competitive.
Like I, I kind of know thequestion, so I don't really dive
into it, but I think it's stillimportant to have like a
consensus of like where juniordevelopers are at, and, as I've
kind of like pulled away, um,from creating content lately,
I've kind of lost touch of that.
I still mentor people, I stilltalk to junior developers, but
(13:32):
not in the capacity that I usedto.
So I feel like I can use a toolto aggregate a bunch of data
that is just going to keep me upto date without me putting in a
lot of time to be able to dothat.
Right, that's an easy use casefor AI and repurposing my
content.
Like I kind of just likeranting I have a list right here
, um, I'm fine with that, but Idon't want to create a blog post
(13:55):
from it.
I don't want to create likeshorts from it and like posts on
LinkedIn and Twitter, and likeI don't have time to do all that
, there's no reason not to useAI to repurpose my content.
What I want to do is figure outa way for it to truly utilize
my voice and any content that'screated.
(14:16):
It sounds like it came just forme.
I'm going to approve all of it.
I'm going to create my owncustom content without AI you
won't know if it comes for me orAI.
I want to be able to utilize AIin the right way to create a
lot more valuable insight andinformation for people.
(14:36):
I don't post anything.
I'm fucking lazy.
I feel like there's so muchcontent I could be pushing out
there and I just don't have thetime because I keep diving into
so much that I'm curious aboutand I'm interested about.
Have the time because I keepdiving into so much that is I'm
curious about and I'm interestedabout, and so now I have more
time to dive into that stuff andI can kind of just talk about
it in a video and then I don'thave to worry about all the
repurposing.
(14:57):
I just don't want to repurpose.
It's, it's a pain.
I don't want to do it.
But also I'm creating coursesnow.
Um, I don't know when thiscourse is going to be released,
but the nest nest course forScribble should be live pretty
soon and then I'm going on toother courses.
Uh, but I like AI was fantasticfor auditing my course.
(15:17):
Um, it's auditing kind of a newcourse that I'm building as
well, and I don't want it tobuild my course content, I want
it to check it.
It can automate a bunch andthere's way more than I'm going
to utilize it for, and I'll talkmore about it and see how it
goes.
But another thing is coding.
Now, I have been so critical ofusing AI for coding again
(15:39):
because I just keep seeing, well, this is where, like, I'm
seeing developers like gooddevelopers that are starting to
like just admit that theirskills are atrophying because
they're overusing AI.
It's a, it's addictive, itactually, with targeted prompts,
um, in like proper contextbeing set up and just limited
scope, it can do it.
(16:00):
Just, I think I need to testthis, but it I think it could do
really well with flushing outfeatures at a much faster pace.
And I think there's this battledevelopers have, where they
have to limit their use.
They have to be careful abouttheir dependency.
They have to really think abouthow they're going to utilize ai
so they don't their skillsdon't start atrophying.
(16:22):
That's a real concern and thisisn't just the dev world.
A lot of people need to realizethis, like we all.
All the different parts of yourmind just look at it, like
different muscles that arereally good at different tasks.
When you don't utilize themuscle, you let it atrophy
because you're outsourcing thatcritical thinking to AI.
(16:45):
That muscle atrophies.
You need to use it right.
So I want to experiment withhaving.
I want to see what, like cursorand different models can do.
I want it to build out afeature I want to lay out like
different conventions.
So I'm building applications inNest and Angular right now and
I have my own CSS conventions Iwanted to follow and I want to
(17:07):
see if I can outline thingsperfectly, prompt it perfectly
and keep the scope small enoughso it can start building out
features.
And I want to see what itproduces.
I want to see what differentLLMs produce.
I want to see if it speeds itup.
Then eventually maybe I canlike trigger some background
tasks for it to build some stuffwhile I'm building my stuff,
but I like part of the week Iwant to also code without it,
(17:31):
right?
I want to find that perfectbalance where I feel like I'm
still growing as a developer andmy skills aren't definitely
skills aren't atrophying, right.
I want to test this out insteadof just shitting on people
creating an over-dependence forAI and again, I do that.
It's not like shitting on theperson, instead of just shitting
on people, creating an overdependence for ai and again I do
that.
It's not like shitting on theperson, it's shitting on the
idea that we should create thisover reliance for ai.
(17:52):
That's the danger.
And like people just don'tacknowledge it, or if they
acknowledge it, they're like,yeah, it could happen, but like
it makes me faster and you know,my product manager wants me to
get this feature out faster orlike and that's the big concern,
right, as developers, we'vealways had to push back.
Just even with code quality,even with reducing technical
(18:14):
debt, we've always had to pushback.
We've had to slow it down a bit, we've had to overestimate and
(18:36):
all we're doing is making worseconditions for ourselves to
basically have to followunrealistic expectations, unless
you create an unrealisticdependency on AI.
And that really worries me themost, because I know how
stressful being a dev can be andI'm thankful that I can just
build my own stuff now and Idon't have to build someone
else's dream up.
I'm very grateful for that.
But you know, a lot of peopleare developers that work very
hard and they put in a lot ofhours and I'm friends with them
(18:57):
and I genuinely feel sad to seegood developers that have really
good intentions and want to dogood for their company just
continue to burn themselves outbecause those expectations
continue to increase andincrease and increase because
developers let that happen.
I know it's not always easy topush back with that stuff, but
man does AI create a reallyinteresting and dangerous
(19:20):
scenario for developers in thefuture if we don't start being
more critical about how we useit in our workflow.
So those are some of mythoughts.
I genuinely am just fascinatedwith seeing what I can use AI
for and I want to talk aboutthat experience.
I want to share how it goes.
(19:41):
I want to share what I thinkabout it, what I hate about it,
and maybe kind of just develop anew perspective for AI, because
I think the future of goodconversation around AI is
utilizing it in a way again thataugments our ability, that just
(20:02):
increases it, or it supplementssome of our weaknesses that we
don't really need to getstronger in necessarily.
Like I just don't care tomemorize regex I never will.
I just don't care about it.
Right, I've used tools to beable to generate that all the
time.
Hey, I can generate that for meand I think that's a good use
(20:22):
case for it, but I'm getting offtrack.
Anyways, I'm going to kind ofdive into it.
I want to learn a lot moreabout LLMs.
I actually Scrum has a reallyinteresting AI engineer track
that I think I'm going to gothrough.
Right.
We're affiliated with them.
Might as well check it out, andit's actually a lot deeper than
(20:43):
I thought.
And kind of just setting up aworkflow and memory and a ton of
stuff I don't even know aboutwith LLMs sounds fascinating.
So I'm going to actually learna hell of a lot more than I know
now and maybe I won't just betalking out of my ass.
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