Back to work in the AI age

Intro In this post I will discuss my perspective on working as a software developer in the AI age and what it means. I will talk about how it was to look for a job first and how that changed, too. I don't mean it t'o be a rant, but it may become one in some places. Looking When I left my last job I did it without considering my next one. I just knew that it was pointless to keep working there, since it was all meetings and no code. I am a software developer, so what was I even doing in those meetings anyway? So I left. It also was a legacy code company, so I haven't learned anything remotely interesting in the last 6 years. Then I took a break. I mean, who wants to search for a job in November, right? Waited for Christmas to pass, then I went on a vacation in Africa - it was nice, then I started to look for a developer job. Shock! Not that I didn't know, at an intellectual level, that things have changed. I try to keep up to date, at least at a consumer level of blogs and YouTube…