When Your Life’s Work Becomes Free and Abundant (x.com)

I sat with that for a while, and what I felt was wonder mixed with a profound sadness. There’s something deeply disorienting about watching the pillars of your professional identity, what you built and how you built it, get reproduced in a weekend by a tool that doesn’t need to eat or sleep.

This shift would be disorienting for anyone. I think it’s increasingly disorienting to engineers who are used to existing in a world of high order and low variability.

But here’s the thing about disorientation: It passes. And what replaced my sadness was something I didn’t expect: a kind of wild, almost reckless energy.

Robin Sloan called this “manic technology.” Those words of reckless and manic hit on something real. Grief and disruption are processes with predictable stages. I believe stabilization with the new tools will come eventually. And I believe it’s going to look different.