AI and My Crisis of Meaning
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A developer left their SaaS company anticipating AI disruption and spent a year freelancing while learning AI coding tools, successfully building applications for various clients. However, after experiencing AI's rapid advancement—particularly following November's "inflection point"—they completed what was budgeted as a 12-week project in just 3 hours using Claude Code, creating an existential crisis about their future relevance and income potential.
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