Why I'm not afraid of the ai boom.

ChatGPT use is not something to be avoided if you want to grow in your career. You must learn to use it effectively as a tool in your toolbox.

Not even 10 years ago, when I was a fresh college CompSci graduate, was vibe coding even a thing yet. All we had was pretty basic Intellisense in our code editors that wasn’t using LLMs (ai) at all.

I learned to code that hard way, but in retrospect, I think it made me a better software developer. I can think through tough problems on my own without the assistance of an LLM code editor like Cursor or Windsurf. I don’t have to rely on ChatGPT for every little bug in the code.

Looking back, it’s crazy to me to see how far Ai has advanced in just two years. Remember that first video that came out of early text-to-video models—the one of Will Smith eating spaghetti? Two years ago ai-generated videos were laughable at best. Now with Google’s Veo 3 model, it’s extremely difficult to spot what's real and what’s fake.

Admittedly, it’s a bit scary with the world we are living in now. But there will always be bad people misusing ai to mis-lead and steal from others. People have been trying to game life since the dawn of man.