Being a software engineer is weird when it comes to family. Many of us feel misunderstood, and honestly, it makes sense - what we do is rarely easy to grasp for a general audience.
Have you had this at a family dinner? Everyone talks about their life, your turn comes, someone asks what you’ve been working on. You explain, short or long. The reaction is always the same: dead silence, then that subtle shift to change the topic. “Let’s open presents!” 🎁
Then I ask my agent to “write me a Sudoku app,” show it around the table, and people lose their minds. 🤯 “Oh wow, you can do that?” I have never received this much attention, compliments, and validation for my skills as I did after three days of vibe coding a Sudoku app.
For comparison:
- My team and I spent years automating the invoicing of £50 million in promotional income from 20 million sales events a week. → silence
- My team and I built a system handling tax reporting for 60 million people. → silence
- Here’s a Sudoku app I asked my agent to write. → admiration, excitement, basically a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame ⭐
If you want to take advantage of this moment too, the window might not stay open long. Agents are getting more powerful, and more expensive, fast. ⏳
Originally posted on LinkedIn.