Strategies to Thrive as AIs get Better - Especially for programmers

AI keeps getting better, and that will continue - at least up to some point.
Even assuming we don't get to AGI any time soon, AI is still going to disrupt the job market drastically.

What strategies are there to try to stay relevant? I can think of Five, and I go through them in this video.

00:00 Quote about models getting better than people
00:59 Channel Intro
01:22 What does "thing" mean?
02:02 An example
03:46 Is this scary?
05:01 Staying Ahead or Falling Behind?
08:02 Ride the Wave?
08:35 Hide from AI
09:05 Go Deep
10:58 Go Wide
12:45 Go Indie
13: 24 How programmers fit in
17:06 My content's focus
18:30 Closing

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# Quote from CEO of Anthropic
https://youtu.be/xm6jNMSFT7g?t=815

# Old computers being smarter than me my whole life
https://www.vcalc.net/ti-hist.htm
https://www.wccls.org/news/brief-history-library-catalog
https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/a19914/chess-computers/

# AIs and large context windows
https://nebius.com/blog/posts/context-window-in-ai#the-downsides-of-using-large-context-windows

# AIs and school teachers
https://www.forbes.com/advisor/education/it-and-tech/artificial-intelligence-in-school
https://direct.mit.edu/adev/article/38/1/98/98308/Does-Computer-Aided-Instruction-Improve-Children-s

# NYTimes article on creative jobs going away
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/03/28/style/gen-x-creative-work.html