The hardest thing AI is replacing is not code, it is your identity. It took me weeks to write this essay, because I think that transition is at the root of what we all have to master over the coming years.

I also share my own experience and what it costs to defend your identity, and what opens up when you stop defending.

Most identity transitions used to take decades. AI is compressing that timeline into months. It is removing the parts of the job that were never really about you. And the question of who you are without them shows up fast.