I got Laid Off two weeks ago. I’ve never been more productive.
I’ve been around the block enough times that getting laid off isn’t all that devastating an event.
And the fact I’m not burnt out this time?
Huge.
I’ve jumped right back into the job search, and into a bunch of experiments.
Reflecting on the last two weeks, I’ve pushed a lot of code.
I lost my job to AI.
Not because I was replaced, but because it put significant pressure on the company business model.
Suffice to say I have mixed emotions about AI.
But damn, I’ve never written so much code in my life.
And I’m not talking garbage code, I’m talking code to the general quality I would have written, 80% faster than I would have written it.
The first experiment was to full vibe code: Maximum brain-rot, rotate IDE’s of Windsurf, Cursor, Copilot, really do the thing.
But, add the constraint of trying to write as high a quality of code as I was capable of. Find the efficient edge of quality/vibe.