Ask not what Hive can do for you, ask what you can do for Hive.

I once made a post about Ai, if it was going to replace some works. And honestly Ai has come to stay.
But we need to look for other ways to make ourselves useful.
Luckily for some of us Ai hasn't caught up our skills yet.

I've had over 60 differend jobs some for a couple of hours some for a couple of weeks , explore what you like or don't like longest time i've spend on one job is 3.5 years , and then i got bored again .

Find something that you are passioned about but be aware not to become a workaholic and end up with a burnout like i did .

This is a question you asked me over phone/voice, and I think I answered. But the fact the you wrote this post with humility speaks a lot. I think you still have ways to go, but this is a good place to start.

I am not a coder myself, but I work with many and being from India and being from an exclusive University in India, which has produced some of the best coders in the world that we know, I have a good understanding about the industry. My nephew works for google deepmind. I have a close friend at NVDA, from the early days, also several at AWS from its inception, and from early days at MSFT. So when you did a lot of mumbo-jumbo in the past, I was disapproving.

The point is not that coding is getting obsolete. That is merely a fact. Now I can code fairly well in python using web version of Jupyter notebook and any of the basic LLMs, but that is NOT the point.

The point is, what is the next step? This is a loaded question.

There are two broad segments towards the solution:

• Next step for you as a person
• Next step for coding as a profession or science

Let us not get into the second, as that will take 2 hours to write and we won't get anywhere.

But, the first point is solvable and easy. As a person, one should explore a profession that they like, but there are times when the likable profession is not enough to produce an employment. Imagine a job of a typewriter maintenance worker (I mentioned that because one of my uncle was one!), no matter how much he/she liked the job, it doesn't exist today. So the person (my uncle) started selling life insurance. Did he like it? No. But if provided the employment. And then after a while he started doing real estate, buying and remodeling home, which he liked a lot. He retired comfortably. Hope you get the moral of the story.

Yes. I had the same revelation. (not the coding part tho, i could never code)

what I CAN (and will ) do is add, through my personal efforts, 1k or more hivers starting now. (actually already started.. got about 50 member of filipinos of hive so far..)

HIVE ON!!!

Totally agree with you. As someone who had big ideas for Hive but no coding ability when Claude (and actually ChatGPT also) came around it became a question of "What do I want to do" rather than "wouldn't it be nice if....". It will be curious to see what the Hive community comes up with :)

I had a similar experience with my former employer. I was a data analyst. I knew a bit of python. I've spent the last 6 months out of work, tinkering with hive. I always wanted to see a tool that could analyse a user's posting history from a language standpoint.

So I just built it.

I both loathe the use of LLMs and AI, yet, in the right hands they're potent tools to amplify my existing abilities. Provided I know the guard rails and what to do when something breaks.

I start a new job on November 10, though, so I only have a scant few days to relax before my time becomes incredibly limited again.

We really are approaching an age of amazing abundence. Lucky AI didnt catch up with my skills yet, so I can fiat mine a little longer.

What I am doing for Hive is hoarding every Hive token I can get my hands on. :)

Not just coding I think eventually everything will be solved by AI, just a question of time. Definitely exciting times we are living in. Think Hive is quite unique in the crypto space, at the end of the day we have a great product but too few people outside our bubble know about it.

I think there is so much more to being a developer than just writing code. There's architecture, security, community-building, etc... and we have plenty of examples where vibe-coded apps have had massive security flaws that have put users in a lot of danger. I do, personally, think it's possible, maybe even likely, that Agentic AI does get worse, especially if synthetic data isn't great, or companies like OpenAI have to shut down data centers because their revenue doesn't cover their costs... but all of that is irrelevant to really the point of your post...

I'm honestly not sure what Hive needs... it does feel like the cryptoworld has kind of left us behind. I do think crypto people tend to flock to the newest, shiniest thing - and I'm not sure where that leaves this blockchain.

You nailed it Wolf... By you leveraging everything you've learnt over the years, and using AI as your grunt workers, you can literally build sky scrappers on your own. All the ideas we ever discussed, and all the one's we had not come up with, are now real possibilities.

I sincerely thing the new age belongs to the people with big ideas. It belongs to the people who can visualize the direction in their heads, and then break it down to steps, to build amazing things.

In that sense, you and other real devs (im not in that department by any stretch) are in the lead.

I quickly noticed this when I spoke with Hive account@mengao over some of my solutions for building Hive account@snapie - His approach as a real developer, would always end up beating my own solutions, because like you, he's been "in the trenches" too.

I love the escrow you've made, and the simple onboarding tool too.

I'm going to put on the thinking cap and shoot out more ideas into the ether, maybe one will catch your eye.

Cheers my friend