I’m on the hopeful side of this. Solopreneurship is hard, but full of benefits and payoffs my full time work just didn’t offer. And a portfolio career — what you have, what I have, stacks of income streams — derisks so much of the income instability.
Maybe worth a share here too: I’m building manualoverride.co for this set of people and this very real challenge of going from employee to entrepreneur. Would be so fun to get you involved.
Great post (& title)! I think a lot of this is spot on, and whilst it’s going to be a big change - I think it can also be a really positive thing for people. How many jobs in tech are really that great when you look closely? How much time do you really work on the stuff you enjoy and are good at? My last few ‘real jobs’ ended up being more than half the time in meetings, admin and changing direction every few weeks based on whatever leadership thought was important at the time 😩
There's a term in the industry: "AI washing". It's when a company lays people off because businesses isn't doing well and share prices are down and publicly explains it as "AI efficiency" to make it sound better to the stakeholders.
This post used a couple of confirmed AI washing examples as the evidence that jobs are becoming obsolete because of AI, including the one from Coinbase, where the so-called "AI efficiency layoff" coincided with the crypto market having been down for a while.
Then I googled the author. Head of growth at Lovable. A company whose entitire business model depends on convincing the public that their product can, somehow, replace real software engineers.
I’m on the hopeful side of this. Solopreneurship is hard, but full of benefits and payoffs my full time work just didn’t offer. And a portfolio career — what you have, what I have, stacks of income streams — derisks so much of the income instability.
Also, love the “mom and pop saas” framing.
Maybe worth a share here too: I’m building manualoverride.co for this set of people and this very real challenge of going from employee to entrepreneur. Would be so fun to get you involved.
Following!!!!
I tried to let myself go but I showed up the next day anyway. Real go-getter.
Great post (& title)! I think a lot of this is spot on, and whilst it’s going to be a big change - I think it can also be a really positive thing for people. How many jobs in tech are really that great when you look closely? How much time do you really work on the stuff you enjoy and are good at? My last few ‘real jobs’ ended up being more than half the time in meetings, admin and changing direction every few weeks based on whatever leadership thought was important at the time 😩
Great post. Already shared with a CEO i know who is having trouble getting his team to adopt AI
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There's a term in the industry: "AI washing". It's when a company lays people off because businesses isn't doing well and share prices are down and publicly explains it as "AI efficiency" to make it sound better to the stakeholders.
This post used a couple of confirmed AI washing examples as the evidence that jobs are becoming obsolete because of AI, including the one from Coinbase, where the so-called "AI efficiency layoff" coincided with the crypto market having been down for a while.
Then I googled the author. Head of growth at Lovable. A company whose entitire business model depends on convincing the public that their product can, somehow, replace real software engineers.
That explains it.