What are we gonna do all day?
I was recently laid off from what was, in many ways, my dream job. Great team; smart, kind people; zero drama or egos. I had autonomy and trust, and I got to do my favorite thing: put systems in place so the devs could focus on their work.
We used AI. A lot. Developers have been sounding the alarm about “coding themselves out of a job” for decades, but it truly is different with AI. And it’s leaking into all knowledge work.
It’s really different this time
The reasons are twofold:
- AI fixes its own mistakes, and it improves faster every time.
- It’s incredible at reverse engineering.
It fixes its own mistakes. Early on, it would confidently hand you something wrong and move on. In one of my first experiences with it, I asked for sources and it “hallucinated” entire book titles and authors. Today’s tools check their own work: they run the code, read the error, and try again. Give one a failing test and it’ll keep going until the test passes, no human required.
And it improves faster every time. AI is helping build better AI, and the cycle keeps getting shorter. The same thing happens inside a team. Every workflow you capture as a reusable prompt or skill makes the next task faster. The gains compound.
“What are we gonna do all day?”
That was a rhetorical question I asked after our lead engineer demoed an end-to-end AI workflow that fixed minor bugs with little human oversight.
The next day, I was laid off. The usual knowledge-transfer call felt especially unnecessary. Any system I’d created or deliverable I’d produced could be reverse-engineered by Claude.
So what are we gonna do all day?
Claude could reverse-engineer anything I built, but only because I’d built it thoughtfully first. Starting from a blank page, it can’t decide which problems are worth solving, design a process a team will actually trust, or know when good enough is good enough. That part is still human work, and it’s the part I’m best at.
That’s the work I want to keep doing: walking into a team, finding where the friction is, and putting AI-powered systems in place so people can focus on the work only they can do. Then on to the next one.
This site is part of that. I’m building it from scratch, starting static and adding forms, a database, and real security as I go, all with the same AI-assisted workflow I’d bring to a team. If your team is drowning in process and wants to move faster, let’s talk.