Ben Newton - Commerce Frontend Specialist

Posts tagged “future-of-work”

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Renaissance Painters Who Lived to See Photoshop
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Renaissance Painters Who Lived to See Photoshop

Painting took roughly five hundred years to get from ground pigment to a brush tool on a screen. Web development did it in a couple of years, and those of us who learned it by hand got to see both sides.

Those of us who learned web development by hand are Renaissance painters who lived long enough to see computer paint programs. AI did that to web development in a couple of years, and it changes who gets to commission the work.

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Coinbase Founder Just Validated What I've Been Saying for Months
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Coinbase Founder Just Validated What I've Been Saying for Months

Brian Armstrong announced one-person teams running fleets of AI agents. I wrote about this model months ago. The only difference is he's calling it a pivot. I've been living it.

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Two Waves of Digital Transformation. Developers Win Both.
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Two Waves of Digital Transformation. Developers Win Both.

Every layer of automation creates a new layer of complexity that needs builders. That's been true for thirty years. It's still true now.

Every layer of automation creates a new layer of complexity that needs builders. That's been true for thirty years. It's still true now.

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AI Isn’t Replacing Developers. It’s Shrinking the Team.
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AI Isn’t Replacing Developers. It’s Shrinking the Team.

The real impact of AI is fewer layers between thinking and building.

AI Isn’t Replacing Developers. It’s Replacing the Space Between Them.