I Still Care

Care does not come from typing every line of code. It comes from attention, time, refinement, and sharing the work.

Show Notes

Does using new tools mean we care less about the things we build?

I used to worry that it might. But care was never about typing every line of code. It comes from spending time with an idea, refining it, sharing it, and letting it become meaningful.

Care, love, and passion still matter. We just put our effort into different things now.

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There were many arguments against using AI for your work, for coding, for doing what you love. Most of them are not accurate anymore, or were just stupid from the beginning. But there was one that stuck with me, and it also hurt me a bit: care.

When you work with AI on a project and you don't write the code yourself anymore, do you care less about the project? It hurt because I felt like it was true. When I worked on a project, I wrote the code, thought a lot about it, and put a lot of work and care into it. With AI, I can spin up a new project in a couple of minutes and throw it away. I don't care yet.

I was thinking about this a lot because I want to care. I think it's important that you care about what you do. Then, yesterday night, the realization came to me. It was super simple: it was never about the code.

It was not just because you wrote the code that you cared so much. It was because you spent time with the application, thought about the project, and put a lot of effort into it. That has not changed. Of course, I can spin up a new application in a couple of minutes, and I don't care yet. But the more I work with it, think about it, refine it, put it out and share it, the more I care again.

I've seen this with a couple of my projects. I have AI-created projects that I deeply care about, even though I have not written a single line of code. Care, love, and passion still matter in the days of AI. You just have to put your work and effort into different things now.

This realization was super important for me. What do you think? We should still care.