I like how Nolan paints this two-sided picture of AI coding.

The worst fact about these tools is that they work. They can write code better than you or I can, and if you don’t believe me, wait six months.

You could abstain out of moral principle. And that’s fine, especially if you’re at the tail end of your career. And if you’re at the beginning of your career, you don’t need me to explain any of this to you, because you already use Warp and Cursor and Claude, with ChatGPT as your therapist and pair programmer and maybe even your lover. 

For me, it has me thinking: in what ways am I still useful? Like, if the code I write isn’t particularly useful, which is quite the blow as I thought that was kinda my main thing, then what is?

I’m hoping it’s still plenty of stuff, because I have lots of career left. I hope I’m useful because I can plan, I can be responsible, I can communicate, I can prioritize, and I can dream. Hopefully, I can turn that into a job for a long time.