Kevin Y

Kevin Y

Ex-Google/X Engineer, Security & Infra

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"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay

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    CodeswtchEngineering judgment for AI-built software
    Jul 2026
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Codeswtch - Engineering judgment for AI-built software

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Founders, be honest: are you building an idea AI gave you?

No judgment, genuinely curious. How many of us asked ChatGPT for app ideas at some point, then ended up building one of them, or half-building it? The line between "my idea" and "the model's idea" got blurry this year. Where did your current project actually come from?

Do programmers even feel like programmers anymore?

Saw a post from an 8-year dev this week. He said any junior with an agent now matches his output, and he feels no pride left in it. It got huge, because a lot of people quietly feel the same.

I read it from the other side. I'm a designer, not an engineer. For years "can you build this" meant "find someone technical and pray they stay interested." Usually they didn't. AI took the thing that hurt that dev and handed it to me.

Same shift. Loss from one seat, freedom from another.

I'm shipping a Mac app solo right now, as someone who can't write a backend from scratch. Two years ago that was a joke.

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