I was a d-list blogger who scored a handful of Hacker News front pages and wrote a book a few thousand people seem to like.
I had always loosely imagined retirement from software development as writing about code full-time. But generative AI is a double-whammy: In the very near future, why would anyone read books about writing software?
They won't even read books about vibe-coding software, they'll just ask Claude to do it.
Reginald
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