Un­anchored.

The fate of software engineering in a world
where everybody can code.

Time
Knowledge
Skill

Scarce by nature. That was the point.

Everybody can code now.

"Together, we're unlimited."- Elphaba, Wicked

"Please stop."- GitHub, probably

So what am I
worth?

The thought after a 10-minute one-shot.

The printing press is to literature
as LLMs are to code.

- after Andrew Janian, CTO, Citadel

3-4
pages / day  by hand
3,600
pages / day  by press

A monk's year, or your Tuesday with Claude Code.

I'm not a coder.
I'm an engineer.

The press replaced the copying. Not the writers.

Don't be
Sears.

They burned down their only advantage.

Limits are
good.

They make you think sideways.

Same 20% return.

Portfolio A
volatile · "slop"
Portfolio B
considered · trusted

You become the limit. Or you ship slop.

LLMs are
leverage.

Leverage makes no returns. You do.

Your humanity
is the point.

Standards. Instinct. Empathy. You just have to care.

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