8: software engineers are fucked
i just one-shotted a website from idea to deployment in 48 minutes with zero technical knowledge.
2 hours ago i didn't know what github was.
now my first ever webpage is live and functional.
it cost me less than an hour + $10.49 for the domain.
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in 7th grade, my media studies teacher showed us MIT's game development platform Scratch.
i was immediately hooked.
for hours after school i would remix and redesign my favorite games.
in 8th grade, my english teacher let us make creative projects instead of written book reports.
GG.
i proceeded to spend dozens if not hundreds of hours recreating my favorite stories in interactive video game format.
as a kid who never did homework (held back in algebra despite acing my exams because my homework score was a phat zer0), this was crack.
doing a school assignment for fun?
unheard of for 12y/o kyle.
then... i never took a computer science class again.
i studied philosophy in college and went into sales as a career.
but that itch to create never went away.
i tried, multiple times, to learn CS on my own through harvard’s online course.
"tried." i never made it past week 3.
i'd run into a few bugs, get pissed the fuck off at google for not having a good answer, and give up.
maybe i'm retarded, i thought.
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until now.
now i can retardmaxx my vision into a functional digital product.
i have so many things cooking.
it's only a matter of time and reps before i make something big.
framer is dead. dev agencies are dead.
anyone who wants it bad enough can escape the permanent underclass.
the age of personal software is here.
-k