The Sweet Spot Is 30% AI, 70% Human

Hey it's Buono. I switched careers to IT engineering at 40. Wanted to use tech to help the people around me. And at first? It was genuinely fun. But lately it's become painfully boring. And the reason is obvious. AI ruined it. AI Took the Part I Actually Loved Here's the thing about me — I love the process of building. That's why I got into electronics, why I built websites and apps from scratch, why I made animation videos for my gadget projects. All of it was about the journey, not the destination. AI took almost all of that away. Specs, architecture, infrastructure, implementation, testing — it's all AI now. I haven't written a single line of code in two years. Not exaggerating. Literally zero lines. I'd estimate AI can handle about 90% of the entire app development process at this point. What's left for humans? Planning, requirements, some design tweaks. That's it. For someone who lives for the process, this is miserable. That heavy feeling I'd been carrying around for months — "wh