A couple of months ago in Miami, I sat down and dumped my brains. Here's the interview...

Some personal hot takes from AI: Engineer Miami follows...1. Software development is a dead-end profession because anyone can be a software developer now. 2. Anyone can use Cursor or any other tool and generate code. Being a coder and being a software engineer are different.3. Computers used to be gated; now everyone has the power to make computers malleable. Everyone is a software developer now, but that does not mean they are software engineers4. If you cannot demonstrate how a coding agent works, you are just a consumer and have imposed an artificial glass ceiling on your career as a software engineer.5. If you are curious, you will have a job. If you have not been curious in the last two years, you are replaceable.6. SaaS per-seat economics may become unstable as customers need fewer people to achieve results, prompting founders to think about new unit economics7. Most companies will take two or three years (or more!) to figure out AI transformation.8. Some companies are already…