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You aren't too old. I've been out of school for ~10 years and AI makes me feel exactly the way you've described it. I'm trying to navigate it and find an exciti

You aren't too old. I've been out of school for ~10 years and AI makes me feel exactly the way you've described it. I'm trying to navigate it and find an exciting space to carve out for myself, but the future feels unclear in a way it never has before. I'm confident in my own ability to build great things, but to your many points, AI has the unique potential to do everything better than me. I don't want to say this makes me feel hopeless, because it genuinely doesn't. I'm working on a new startup, I'm starting a family, and I'm doing well. I just want to build things that matter, that people find useful, and I've been having a hard time figuring out how I'll do that in a world with sufficiently advanced AI. Hobbies have never been enough for me, and never will be. It needs to be more than fun to energize me - I need to feel like I'm moving a needle. For now, all I know is that I don't know. It feels nearly impossible to guess what the future holds.

brushfoot 2y ago
The current generation of AI can't do the truly difficult things better than you: finding a good niche, making the decisions about how you want to differentiate, building relationships with your customers, choosing which innovations to pursue and when to build on the features you already have. I run my own startup too, and I wish it could help me with those things. So far the most I can get from it is things like generating some HTML, and even then it gets it wrong half the time. That will change in the future, but it will be gradual, and it will help you execute on ideas faster and better.