How to stay relevant as a developer

We are seeing a trend in layoffs in perfectly healthy companies. Blocks laid off nearly half their staff, and it’s not because they can’t pay them: Gross profit continues to grow… but something has changed. We're already seeing that the intelligence tools we're creating and using, paired with smaller and flatter teams, are enabling a new way of working which fundamentally changes what it means to build and run a company. — Jack Dorsey We’ve all heard it: AI is coming for your job. This looks like Exhibit A, doesn’t it? There’s a real point buried in the hype. AI will happily eat the tedious, time-heavy parts of writing code. And if “I write code” is the entire value you bring, then AI is going to replace you. But if you’d like to be better than that, here are a couple of ideas. Ship faster Instead of working less, put in the same effort and ship more. Teams will hit the same output with half the people, so you need to be twice as productive. Efficiency doesn’t shrink demand; it expands