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Code Is Cheap Now. Problems Are Not.
Ten real problems across the software lifecycle, and a challenge for anyone who wants to build a career in the AI era.
A few days ago I was sketching product ideas, and I caught myself thinking something that would have sounded absurd five years ago: I can build almost any of these alone.
Not a prototype that falls over, but a real product with a dashboard, an SDK, authentication and billing. One person with a laptop and an AI coding assistant can now do what used to take a team of five and a quarter of runway.
That changes what is scarce.
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For years the advice to get hired was to grind LeetCode, memorize dynamic programming patterns, and be able to reverse a linked list on a whiteboard under pressure. I’m not saying that was useless. But look at what is happening now. An AI model can solve most of those problems in seconds. It writes boilerplate, tests and refactors.
Code writing is becoming a commodity.
What isn’t a commodity is knowing which problem is worth solving, understanding the customer who has it, and taking a solution all the…
