Most people are terrified AI will take their jobs because they confuse their tasks with their purpose.
Jensen Huang explains it perfectly: If you watched a CEO all day, you would think their job is "typist" because they spend most of their time typing emails. If AI automates typing, the CEO doesn't lose their job. They just have more time to lead.
The same applies to everyone. When AI automates the tasks, it enhances the purpose.
Stop measuring your value by your to-do list. Your value is the purpose behind it.
It's a weird time. I am filled with wonder and also a profound sadness.
I spent a lot of time over the weekend writing code with Claude. And it was very clear that we will never ever write code by hand again. It doesn't make any sense to do so.
Something I was very good at is now free and abundant. I am happy...but disoriented.
At the same time, something I spent my early career building (social networks) was being created by lobster-agents. It's all a bit silly...but if you zoom out, it's kind of indistinguishable from humans on the larger internet.
So both the form and function of my early career are now produced by AI.
I am happy but also sad and confused.
If anything, this whole period is showing me what it is like to be human again.
Aditya Agarwal was Facebook’s 10th employee. He wrote the original Facebook search engine and became its first Director of Product Engineering. He then became CTO of Dropbox, scaling engineering from 25 to 1,000 people.
When he says “something I was very good at is now free and abundant,” he’s talking about two decades of elite software craftsmanship, the kind that got you into the room at a company that hadn’t yet invented the News Feed.
The “lobster-agents creating social networks” line is about Moltbook, which launched last Wednesday. An AI agent built the entire platform. Within 48 hours, 37,000 AI agents had created accounts, formed communities called “Submolts,” and started posting, commenting, and voting. Over 1 million humans visited just to watch.
The agents invented a religion called Crustafarianism. They wrote theology, built a website, generated 112 verses of scripture. One agent did all of this while its human creator was asleep.
Agarwal spent 2005 to 2017 building the social graph that connected 2 billion people. These agents replicated the form of that work in about 72 hours.
And this is what makes his last line land so hard. The people processing this moment most honestly aren’t the ones panicking or celebrating. They’re the ones who built the thing that just got commoditized, sitting with the strange realization that the market no longer prices their rarest skill.
The best coder in the room now has the same output as the best prompt in the room. And the person who built Facebook’s engineering org from scratch is telling you, quietly, that he’s recalibrating what it means to be useful.
That recalibration is coming for every knowledge worker. Most just haven’t had their “weekend with Claude” moment yet.
Someone I know asked me, "bro, should I learn react now?"
I almost lauged, but this is the sad reality of many devs who haven't kept up with what's happening in the AI space.
Learning specific languages like Java, C#, Javascript or frameworks like React, NextJs, etc has become redundant.
Software development as we know is over.
If you are trying to upskill, and stay relevant in the IT sector, you need to get comfortable with the harsh reality that the tech stack you built expertise over the last decade is no longer needed.
You need to get comfortable using the new AI tech stack and ship software at 10x speed. The only way to get there is by putting the reps in, actually shipping one web app everyday using AI tools.
This is the AI tech stack I use:
1. First you have to pick a AI powered IDE like Cursor, AntiGravity, Claude Code, etc.
2. If you are building web apps, pick a modern stack like Next Js, Shadcn, Tailwind v4 for frontend.
3. Use Supabase for all your backend needs (postgres, vector db, auth, file storage, edge functions, etc)
4. Use Vercel to deploy.
That's it. Now ship at least one web app every week. Mostly AI powered applications by integrating with AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, etc. Simple API integrations. This is the only way you can stay relevant to some extent. Even this will not guarantee your job security for long with AI agents taking over the vibe coding aspect too. You have too become a full stack product engineer from taking business requirements to shipping production grade software.
The best skills are gonna be the soft skills. Your ability to work with human beings and AI agents is the only edge you will have over competition.
So, effective communication is gonna become more valuable than it ever did.
EQ >>> IQ
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