42 With AI Here, Can I Still Survive as a Super IC? — "The Programmer's AI Anxiety Trilogy Part Two: The Individual Chapter". In the previous article, we discussed the challenges grassroots management faces in the AI era, as well as some changes in the functions, qualities, and skills of this position. Now we are going to talk about the individual: I don't want to be a leader, or leadership positions are limited, and I can't or don't have the opportunity to be one. So, as a frontline developer, can I take the route of the "Ultimate Employee"? Can the path of being a super IC (Individual Contributor) empowered by AI work, and what challenges and skill requirement changes will I encounter? The Gap Between People Has Been Stretched to Infinity
42 With AI Here, Can I Still Survive as a Super IC? — "The Programmer's AI Anxiety Trilogy Part Two: The Individual Chapter". In the previous article, we discussed the challenges grassroots management faces in the AI era, as well as some changes in the functions, qualities, and skills of this position. Now we are going to talk about the individual: I don't want to be a leader, or leadership positions are limited, and I can't or don't have the opportunity to be one. So, as a frontline developer, can I take the route of the "Ultimate Employee"? Can the path of being a super IC (Individual Contributor) empowered by AI work, and what challenges and skill requirement changes will I encounter? The Gap Between People Has Been Stretched to Infinity During the Spring Festival last year in 2025, I said something: AI has stretched the gap between people to infinity. The gap between people used to be large, but never as ridiculously large as it is now. How ridiculous? Let's look at a statistic—how many tokens can you spend in a day? I think 100 million...
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