Dev Advice: AI Makes Platform-Heavy Side Projects the Best Career Bet
himanshustwts · x · 2026-09-26
The author argues that if your daily work is generic SWE stuff—prompting agents, fixing bugs, shipping features—there has never been a better time to build ambitious core platform/infrastructure side projects. AI has collapsed the idea-to-execution gap, and such projects can lead to high-agency roles, frontier labs, or your own startup.
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