The AI era
How AI is changing developer work, the market for developers and what gets valued.
The developer market is shifting
Large dev teams are shrinking because of AI. Meanwhile, small businesses are starting to build their own internal tools and will need experts a few days a month.
Experience-based daily rates no longer measure anything
Daily rate grids were built on years of experience because the keyboard capped the gap between good and bad developers. With AI, that bottleneck is gone.
The part-time senior developer: a new freelancing model
In companies where the product only supports the business, vibe-coding hits a wall fast. A senior developer a few days a month is often enough to lift it.
The next bottleneck in software development is RAM
AI moved the bottleneck from writing to reviewing. The next one is hardware: running five agents in parallel needs a machine not everyone will have.