Fork Life

Enough about technology. Let me write about a talent agency for once.

I started the talent business when the AI wave hit. I watched Roo generate code endlessly. It opened the editor directly and made changes on the fly — more visceral than Claude Code or Codex. I saw that and thought: it's over.

The IT world will change dramatically. Luckily, I have years of trade-off experience stacked up. What to discard, what to keep. Where to compromise, where to hold the line. That judgment is still hard for AI. I might barely survive until retirement. But the juniors coming up now — they may never see this career through. I believed that sincerely.

I thought about what AI cannot replace. Technology will be replaced. Code can be written. Design will follow eventually. What remains is communication. Standing between people, building trust, moving relationships. That is still human territory.

And I wanted a job that changes many lives. The lives you change through code have limits. But if you can spot someone's talent and build a system to bring it into the world, the reach is different. I don't have that talent myself. I might be able to build the system, though. Call it sentimental, but AI cannot create a story that moves people. Only the sight of someone rising to their feet gives others courage.

I am still on the road. Stumbling through darkness, again and again. One thing from the IT world serves me well. Incidents happen. Make them observable. Investigate. Improve. Once you find the cause, you can act. That's all there is.