Almost everyone in the industry worth their weight is using LLMs now. Top tier models create really solid code nowadays.

What is the last fad that the entire industry adopted in 9 months?

If cost per intelligence is going down, and compute capacity is rising I can’t see a world where token pricing will go up.

Programming was never enjoyable to me.

Making things is. LLMs allow you to be extremely pragmatic and enjoy making things or troubleshooting things without tedious line by line nature.

Leetcode seems pretty useless right now. I think a take home, the results, and a conversation will lead to a really solid hiring signal though.

The entire world of software is using AI. It’s so strange to me we’re allowing big corporations like Microsoft, Google, Reddit, etc devs take advantage of it for efficiency gains then turning around and criticizing and scoffing at solo dev projects who want to push the Internet to a better place.

By all means it’s your right to say you don’t want to use anything built with AI, but at this point you’re better just leaving the Internet wholesale.

Anyone have any recommendations?