Learn to code. Coding's dead. Learn AI. Don't use AI. You'll never learn the fundamentals. Learn the fundamentals. Nobody writes Assembly. Learn C, it makes you a better programmer. Nobody writes C. Use Copilot, everybody does. Don't use Copilot, they can tell. Use Cursor. Cursor's making you worse. Vibe code an app. Vibe-coded slop doesn't scale. Ship fast, don't ship slop. Let AI write the boilerplate. Don't let AI write anything you can't debug. Read what it generated. If you're reading it that carefully, write it yourself.
Learn prompt engineering. Prompt engineering isn't a job. Learn machine learning. Everybody's learning machine learning. Do what nobody's doing. But do what's hiring. Use a framework. Frameworks make you lazy. Learn React. React is bloated. Learn Rust. Nobody's hiring Rust. Learn Go. Learn Python. Python's too slow.
Learn TypeScript. Just learn JavaScript properly. Pick a stack. Don't be pigeonholed. Specialize. Be full stack. Be T-shaped. Depth beats breadth. Breadth is leverage. Write tests. But tests slow you down, so move fast and break things. But don't break prod. Comment your code. But good code doesn't need comments. Read the docs. But the docs are wrong. Read the source. You don't have time to read the source.
Ask for help. Don't ask what you could Google. Just Google it. But don't just Google it, understand it. Learn Git properly. Just memorize four commands. Learn Docker. Learn Kubernetes. You don't need Kubernetes. Learn the cloud. Cloud costs will bankrupt you.
Build side projects, but not another to-do app. Build something original, but don't reinvent the wheel. Solve a real problem. Scratch your own itch. Nobody wants your itch. Finish your products. Ship at eighty percent. Ship at forty. Don't launch broken. Get users. Talk to users. But users don't even know what they want. Build what you'd use. But you're not the market.
Green your GitHub. Nobody looks at your GitHub. Contribute to open source. Your PR has been open for eight months. Fix a typo in the docs. That counts. That doesn't count.
So anyway, just build shit.