same. 50’s, coding since the 90’s, make more $$ than I can spend in 3 lifetimes. one constant thing in my 3 decade career has been that absolute best people I worked with all had one common thread - absolute laziness. sounds strange but every other trait of a great SWE has not been universal except laziness.

the laziness manifest itself into productivity as crazy as this sounds. how? lazy people find a way to automate repetitive tasks. what I have learned from these over the years is that anything you do twice has to find a way to be automated as third time is around the corner :)

what does this have to do with AI? the AI has taken automation to another level allowing us to automate so much of our work that was not previously possible. I found myriad of ways to use AI and several of my best (lazy) co-workers have as well. I cannot imagine doing my work anymore without it, not because of any “magic” but because my lazy ass will be able to do all the things that I have automated out