As a mediocre software engineer, I am scared as hell
A few options left for us?
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Switch to product engineering—by applying your engineering skills to help companies grow MRR, LTV, ARPU, and other terms I recommend to learn ASAP.
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Super deep specialization? Not guaranteed but write some code needed for disease research and personalized medicine that identifies variations from a reference DNA sequence, such as single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), insertions, deletions, and structural variants. Who said it should be easy?
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Build your own products—not easy, but possible if you can work 24 hours 7 days a week. That's what I am focused on now, but accidentally. Not because of AI, because it turns out I love that?
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Switch to full human-to-human specialties—developers better stop hating marketing and management and start learning from colleagues.
What else can save us?
