Genuinely, I think the best thing you can do as a developer right now is to upskill in 3 areas:
1. Agentic engineering aka using LLMs to write code (easy)
2. Building agents with guardrails, evals and patterns like human-in-the-loop (easy/medium)
3. RAG with or without vector databases (medium/hard)

We teach the last 2 at Parsity. https://parsity.io/ai-dev

Thank you!! For pointing me in the the right direction. And how I need to focus and utilize my 25 years working as a pipeline engineer, creating tools for film production in Hollywood.

This era of stolen data is disrupting everything

Good luck finding AI engineer job, especially as a junior

I hear you on this. As someone who is still in the beginner class of coding, who might still want to do a boot camp someday, a bootcamp that embraces both the realities and shortcomings of AI-assisted coding would be really interesting to me. To learn to code, as well as to learn to wrangle AI agents like you described, and also to specifically learn how you tackle a pile of AI slop would be really interesting. As a beginner, AIs talent for making something that LOOKS reasonable is very disorienting. It's really hard to learn from inference in that environment.

Yep, I make WordPress plugins and stand alone plugins, I make zero $ now... I have no idea what to do!

I am on the opposite lane I am a developer I have built ideas that are marketable targeting service industry but don't have the sales and marketing chops to make this products adaptable.

I agree, any user can now create custom projects without advertisement, without subscription, without spyware.
Also as a developer you want to create things, not be part of a cog in the machine of big companies.

The most surprising thing to me is this: interest in computer science fell through the floor just as the machine gos head revealed itself

Sorry to hear this.  There are many people lost their carrear becaise of AI

This is why there will be more software and engineers than ever. The market will be a different shape, but it will very much be there.

You're a father of 3? My first one was born 1 month ago, and I'm a new dad. I just subbed, since I like hardworking dads.

Great video.

9:43 developers are genuinely get familiar with domains they are working in and good developers know all the ins and outs. so this whole video rests on a false premise

The value chain (associated with Big Tech) has changed. Middlemen are being cut out. More money stays at the top. It is what it is.

There is a lot of money to be made servicing smaller businesses that cannot afford cloud infrastructure, subscription products and would not be able to afford agentic solutions.

This isn't hype, and it isn't mainstream, but there is a lot of money to be made, especially for independent software developers.

If SWE think the value chain associated with Big Tech is going to swing back in their favor, they are deluded. There is no practical use-case for Big Tech retaining SWEs to adjust DIVS, play with React, manipulate Tailwind, chatGPT, or Claude.  The workload/remuneration ratio with Big Tech isn't worth it anymore.

But believe it or not, there is IMMENSE opportunity out there to support smaller businesses that do not have the budgets to engage Big Tech solutions.

Be where the puck is going.

7k not that cheap

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Need some real training on how to build harnesses for AI

Listen man. You might be very very good technically. But vocationally, or career wise, you are really like really don't understand it. You are way over your head. We are talking primary school - not secondary, and high school - level of understanding.

Where do I start. Look at you. How could a guy with this level of technical knowledge end up like this ?  do you see a pattern ?

When I first saw your channel I was like what the f*** is this guy doing investing in training people ?!!! Doesn't he know that this is the first step toward really being homeless. Well ... now you know

Democratization of any skill is the first step of making this skill worthless.

You need to start working as a tech lead making 150k. Then quickly  transition into management ASAP.

So at your age. Again I'm going to say at your age you start working less and making more - which is exactly what you need at this point in life.

Now. Don't commit the sin of giving what I am saying the benefits of your thoughts. You will wound up worse than you are now.

Just execute.