I think you're spot on. They're hiring as much as possible to make numbers look better ("we're growing so fast!") and later on blame AI for layoffs ("we're way more efficient with AI now!"). That's the play in almost all VC funded companies. If you want to stay there, try to shift to a position that decides about the product and has a lot domain specific knowledge. Start looking for an enterprise job if stability is important for you.
Yes! Coding is just one of the tasks you've got to do when building a software business. You also have to find a good value preposition, identify a good channel to your customers, manage your resources etc.
Channels are becoming even more important as software has become easy to copy. But copycats always existed. When it wasn't created by AI, it was created in low wage countries.
I’ve recently realized that behind each copycat, there is an entrepreneur. It’s not a big factory with written “Leading #1 in piracy” at the front. It’s someone with almost as many skills as the original entrepreneurs, trying to copy a few of them to see where there is traction, with hopes and dreams similar to the original, but too far away from the world’s center of activity to propose something relevant. Some of them probably do it with the “I can do it better than them” mindset.
In my opinion, a lot of strategic work can be automated - and results would actually be better. Why? Because the strategic management agent would most likely follow a scientific process and make small bets instead of investing millions in initiatives without having a clear signal.
What you cannot automate is the human contact. Trust between humans. Enlighting the fire that burns inside you inside others. CEOs aren't necessarily the best strategic thinkers but they're very good in dealing with people and they are high-agency people.
Yes. Still one of the best batteries included web frameworks for creating anything that's more of a website (e.g. E-Commerce) than a web app (e.g. Photoshop). No, you don't need NextJs and friends for everything ;)
Is Groovy/Grails still popular? I also remember Groovy++ but I believe its features were incorporated into Groovy. But maybe these are already present in modern Java?
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