26 karma · joined June 10, 2025
I don't believe software crafting engineers will be replaced by AI but software boilerplate engineers will be replaced.
At the end of the day, everything we do converges to the word "Customer". So it high time we sneak peek into so called "Customer Voice" and rewrite what software+product craft engineering will look like in future.
One fact that people forget is technology, programming became famous because people loved to do it. Apart from solving problem, if people are not interested to solve them via programming, then none of the capital nor modern solutions wouldn't have existed.
What is very important now is, as human race, we need to take a break, retrospect ourselves. 10+ years of programming would have made wired your brain for expertise which none of newbies would never achieve in their life time. That is your biggest strength.
We are in golden age of software engineering where we can stop thinking about software engineering itself but focus on solutioning, business and customer values.
If claude writes code, then why can't we talk to customers and give better solutions which claude can never provide at free will.
As programmers we would have at least smiled once in our journey looking into a customer feedback or testimonial, our code solved it.
Maybe start thinking about how we can be useful to other human beings via technology expertise we possess.
For decades, we have been using resumes as primary people discovery tool. frankly speaking, no one likes to update boring resume stuff. We thought why can't we discover people by more signals, deep lens which a personal website/portfolio gives.
This gives people motivation to keep portfolio website upto date with journaling.
ATS automatically captures all signals realtime from github, blogs, case studies docs comprehensively and showcase to employers
We are approaching not AI heavy way. Balance of SAAS + AI integration to build it into people hiring platform.
Would love blunt feedback from others
I would say "Wisdom cannot be trained". Every individual is unique in this world and journey that he travels, experience in professional and personal life, mindset shapes an individual. Its almost impossible to replicate. That wisdom guides the person forever.
We are only ATS, making it easier for people to showcase real work and for startups to spot better candidates faster.
We are not building AI heavy/AI-native tool. We have integrated AI as tool wherever is necessary.
We believe you can't built customer-centric tool if AI is thrown everywhere. Our tool is meant for real human connections and discovery.
Success at first attempt is rare. My original question was around when you decide to pursue one of your idea fulltime. It could be 1, 2, 3rd attempt but at some point, we only have 2 option. Quit or next iteration
but 5 months, we learned we can't build sustainable business out of it. But we had around 1000+ signups. Users gave us feedback, currently my portfolio looks standalone, if you could connect me with maybe potentials jobs etc then, something value i can pay for.
Then we tried to connect portfolio with ATS. Portfolio-first ATS for startups and lean teams. Then yeah, we got around 10 customers who are ready to pay.
Recently couple of colleges, also expressed interest for such tool.
Now we got our core principle in place, "Build by feedbacks, not with assumptions"
But reality is most startups begins with idea at day 1.
Real game changer is Idea -> problem -> solution -> value for money -> customer, how quickly your startup make these transitions and get your Market Product Fit.
Journey will be hard but hang in there and keep your product floating and keep connecting the dots. No playbook exists
Everything else just auxiliary things
Fatty teams will become lean. productivity will become 10x. Shipping feels fast.
These signals feels right at first for acceleration.
Once complexity factor starts to creep in every SAAS will need human intervention to scale it forward .
I derive this analogy where AI is like code editor with advanced auto suggestions feature.
How far you are pushed to use by your organisation is going to break every seniors patience.
AI hype is trying blurring between blue collar and white collar people. In reality the line will exists and it will broaden.
Right query would be "When will AI hype disappear?"
Its a battle between AI-tool VS AI-Boss
"Understanding translated into code" has been the art and science of programming for decades.
"Understanding translated into code", this user flow is accelerated now.
But the blueprint remains the same.
Why you did this?, why this way? , why you joined this company?
This gives good understanding of both Personality and Hard skills.
Getting in front and hands of users and making them use your product is the key challenge.
"Why would user choose your product over existing established competitors?"
Adding culturally non-fit team members
Setting process and system to accelerate the speed of execution not to slow down
Finding the harmony with process and speed
Finding the harmony with quality and quantity
My book suggestion is "The One Minute Manager" for team management
Reinforcing Vision and Mission statement of why your startup exists
My doctor uncle, has a home library with 5000+ medical books. He says "Learning is a live long process."
Successful professionals harmonize work and personal time. Same goes for engineers.