I’m glad that LLMs and AI are here. It finally feels like something new. You might say “duh…”, but hear me out:

Honestly, the last couple of years before LLMs felt stagnant, with many motivated and talented people searching for challenges or problems to solve, not the other way around. It was frankly weird. Migrating code bases from Go to Rust, and implementing better TUIs for curl are cool side projects, and I have my share of those too, but one has to question the ROI at some point.

In reality, many problems have already been solved, from good tooling to programming languages, frameworks, development methodologies, and so on, all the way up to entire businesses.

And it’s not like innovation in these areas isn’t necessary or impossible. There have certainly been many improvements in recent years: better programming languages, nicer UIs (UX is still a tragedy, though), and so on in other areas.

But at the same time, it also felt like we had been circling around the same topics, reinventing things over and over again.

Enter LLMs. There are lots of comparisons to the .com bubble, but regardless of the bubble, you know what? It does feel like the early days of the Internet all over again. We suddenly have this newfound motivation to learn and experiment with new technology, figure out how to use it best, industrialize it, and build businesses around it. Let’s set aside the critiques for now (even if many of those are likely valid), but more importantly, we’re doing new things again.

I hear more and more about new challenges, from new DevEx practices to building company-wide AI skills, entirely new products, and a ton of enthusiasm and interest in new ideas. And it feels. just. awesome.

Happy entrepreneuring, everyone! Time to build things that matter.