Strategies to Thrive as AIs get Better - Especially for programmers

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AI keeps getting better, and that will continue - at least up to some point. Even assuming we don't get to AGI any time soon, AI is still going to disrupt the job market drastically. What strategies are there to try to stay relevant? I can think of Five, and I go through them in this video. 00:00 Quote about models getting better than people 00:59 Channel Intro 01:22 What does "thing" mean? 02:02 An example 03:46 Is this scary? 05:01 Staying Ahead or Falling Behind? 08:02 Ride the Wave? 08:35 Hide from AI 09:05 Go Deep 10:58 Go Wide 12:45 Go Indie 13: 24 How programmers fit in 17:06 My content's focus 18:30 Closing My mailing list: https://iob.fyi/News # Quote from CEO of Anthropic https://youtu.be/xm6jNMSFT7g?t=815 # Old computers being smarter than me my whole life https://www.vcalc.net/ti-hist.htm https://www.wccls.org/news/brief-history-library-catalog https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a19914/chess-computers/ # AIs and large context windows https://nebius.com/blog/posts/context-window-in-ai#the-downsides-of-using-large-context-windows # AIs and school teachers https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/it-and-tech/artificial-intelligence-in-school https://direct.mit.edu/adev/article/38/1/98/98308/Does-Computer-Aided-Instruction-Improve-Children-s # NYTimes article on creative jobs going away https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html