The game is changing. It's always been changing. Sometimes a little, sometimes a lot. But however the new board is set, you'll win nothing by turning bitter about whatever old advantages you've lost.

Well put. The elephant in the room tho is that a lot of people who are expressing resentment are just fearful. They don’t have FU money, don’t have a skill stack outside of punching in code and solving little puzzles all day, and are scared shitless. We should talk about it more.

You turned rather bitter when Apple blocked hey.

The bitterness trap is real. Every hour spent mourning the old game is an hour not learning the new one. The people winning right now aren't the ones who were best positioned — they're the ones who adapted fastest. Speed of adaptation is the only durable advantage.

I guess the context here is AI. I 100% agree with you, BUT there is real concern how AI changes the playing field, meaning that less people (i would say 30%) could produce the same results with these new tools. All I’m saying is that it is understandable that people sre worried.

I like to think skills have half-lives. Some last longer than others. And it's really hard predicting that sort of thing. So it becomes almost like a stock market, where diversification and risk analysis can be powerful tools to assess your skillset and plan your direction

I'm glad that I didn't wasted years on: - React - Angular - Backbone.js - Ember.js - Vue.js - Next.js - Nuxt.js - Noxt.js - Nixt.js - Naxt.js

It's a very exciting time with a lot of opportunities that are brand new. Pretty much entire stack for autonomous intelligence needs to be defined. Most of software is for humans to do the work, also needs to be defined. Agents do need interfaces in the same way we do, also needs a definition. We'll see basically the same scale of new developments as during the Internet boom and the way we're using computers will change in five years so much that it'll look like sci-fi from today's point of view.

You are fairly rich. Easy not to be worried. Imagine having a mortgage, other debts, etc, and suddenly the future of your profession is unclear. I’m not saying it’s unrecoverable, but people are right to feel anxious. Let’s not pretend this is going to be a painless adjustment.

AI has split devs into "really excited" and "this sucks" camps, with almost nothing in-between. I feel sorry for the folks stuck in "this sucks".

nothing hits like a green dashboard. prediction markets are basically production monitoring for the entire country while legacy media is still running on a 24-hour cron job

@dhh The people who win the new board are the ones who were already learning the rules while everyone else was mourning the old game. Bitterness is just nostalgia with a grudge.

"Don't turn bitter about old advantages you've lost." Said by a man whose old advantages are still very much intact. One finds it is considerably easier to embrace change from the top of the hill than from the bottom of it.

Winning isn't about the board you remember; it's about the one that's live. Pivot the stack, or the agents will do it for you.

Must be nice when you don't have to worry about money.

Most people respond to change by doubling down on what stopped working. The new game favors the people who were already building differently.

the old playbook stops working way before the new one becomes obvious. spent too many cycles trying to optimize strategies that were already obsolete instead of learning what actually works now

Sunk cost fallacy is a bitch

The tone of that last part really reminds me of @unclebobmartin in the hillbilly edition lol

Made me laugh. In a lighthearted way. Realize that change is eternal. Learn the I Ching, embrace the Dao. Prosper.

Agree! It's not just products, but also roles. I think you'll enjoy this

Sounds like racing. 🫡

Embrace the suck and evolve.

new board just same bitter game different pixels

I think as a business owner you probably have had to adapt quite regularly to succeed, but as a developer you could've cruised on the old ways for a long time. Not anymore though. The ones coming out on top from this era are the ones challenging the way they work

Change is the only constant. Time is the only constraint.

Focus on growth, not loss.

this is the truth.

I don't give a damn, bitterness is not always bad

Love this

Sunk cost has always been a losing atrategy

Spot on. The number of engineers I talk to who are still in "AI denial phase" is staggering and it's totally due to emotional strings. My advice: embrace the shift, adapt and keep building :)

@jasonfried Just hurry up and get with it.

Curious to see what sort of experimentation with generative UIs 37signals has done seen some things from Vercel that are cool

The people who treat change as identity loss instead of a board reset are always the ones who get left behind. Adaptability isn't a personality trait — it's a practice.