As a kid, I spent hours playing Flash games in my browser. Never imagined that one day, I’d build my own gaming platform. ❤️ Thanks to AI.
With those childhood memories, the same excitement, and a love for games, I’m launching ChaiKatta.in. 🕹️
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In 1994, software was dead. People told me programming was for nerds and that I should become a doctor or a lawyer instead.
In 2004, software was dead. People told me that someone from India would take my job for $5/hour.
In 2014, software was dead. People told me that no-code was going to kill every job and doom my career.
In 2024, software was dead with Devin, Windsurf, Copilot, and OpenAI o1.
We kill software every 10 years, and yet the demand for good Software Engineers has never been higher.
Hey guys let’s have some fun by making games frictionless to play!
Introducing chaikatta.in - a platform where casual games actually stay casual. Just open and get going during your tea breaks and also during your work time if you feel like it
Hope to see u all.
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Saying software is dead because anyone can build it is like saying photography is dead now that everyone in the world has a camera in their pocket
Not only is it not dead it's the beginning of the Kodak Brownie moment for software, and we will see an absolute explosion of it
It will be the first generation for who building software will feel no different than using it. This is crazy!
The quality and bar of what we expect from our everyday apps will be raised dramatically, we'll have personal software, we'll have disposable software, and agents will be the foundation for most of it
Tech has always been chaotic and evolving, the people who have been able to adapt and move in front of new opportunities have always excelled, this is nothing new, I'm seeing it now and we'll see it 10 years from now
Find the opportunities in the chaose and disruption, there are countless of them
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you will be much better off not worrying at all if software is dead or not and instead just continue making cool and useful things and exploring your curiosity to wherever it takes you
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pewdiepie’s character development needs to be studied.
> dropped out of university.
> worked odd jobs while uploading gaming videos.
> became the biggest YouTuber.
> got into reading books.
> got into drawings (insanely good)
> got into philosophy.
> moved to Japan and started family vlogs.
> got into tech.
> deep into linux.
> installed arch.
> replaced all his google services.
> learned coding.
> bought tons of GPUs.
> made his own local data center.
> trained his own LLM.
> distilled OpenAI’s Sol into his local model and got banned twice lmao.
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By continuing to engineer software, and by realizing that engineering software now means the management of agents to produce that software.
Using agents will make you X times more productive. This does not mean that companies will require fewer programmers. It means that companies will get X times more done, and make X times more profit.
I expect the demand for software engineers, who know how to successfully drive agents, to go through the roof.
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AI can write the code.
AI can write the docs.
AI can write the tests.
AI can even write the PR description explaining why the code is definitely correct.
What it cannot reliably do is decide what should be built, ask the uncomfortable question in the room, convince people to change direction, or notice that everyone is solving the wrong problem.
As the cost of producing output keeps dropping, the value shifts to judgment, communication, taste, context, and knowing what not to do.
So yes, soft skills matter. They are just becoming increasingly hard requirements.
Soft skills are not really "soft" anymore.
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be curious. adapt. think AI first and multiply your productivity by building great systems around it.
manual coding is gone (in most cases), so, focussing on building a great verification system and making sure no bugs leak in your code and crafting great experience is what will keep people relevant.
earlier people could survive basis coding, but now it will be business impact, product thinking, and engg.
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You just have to give more fucks about accomplishing your goals than how you look trying to achieve them.
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It's never been easier to make money than it is today. But the reason people don't is because it's also never been easier to be distracted than it is today.
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It is concerning how enggs are losing their grip on their systems. Not just on the low-level code, but on the end-to-end flow of their systems as well.
I think there are two reasons for this:
1. Everything is in a hurry now. We are constantly optimizing for faster delivery, so there is less time to understand how things actually work.
2. We are moving towards higher-order abstractions. What could have been 5 well-documented steps explaining how things work is now abstracted away into poorly maintained skill files.
Btw, abstractions do not eliminate complexity. They just move it somewhere else.
So when a rare and complex issue shows up, it takes relatively longer to understand, diagnose, and fix the problem.
The happy path got faster. Yay! But failure path got longer. And that is a tradeoff we are not talking about enough.