Challenge Is Gone

The author, an engineer who spent his life pursuing technical challenges—building apps, games, and services just to prove he could solve the problems—has lost his primary motivation at age 40 with the rise of AI. Because artificial intelligence can now handle engineering challenges that once required his skills and determination, he no longer experiences the struggle that once gave his work meaning. Rather than despair, he views this as liberation, freeing him to focus on what problems are actually worth solving rather than whether he can solve them.