0:05
I'm struggling with these, their allergies are called, I'm not sure which.
3:32
Oh, I hope it's allergies.
3:35
Colds are known.
3:36
Oh no, it's been miserable the last couple days.
3:40
Yeesh.
3:41
We look like you've got some color.
3:44
Oh man.
3:45
I'm getting the poll cleaned up and working out.
3:51
Yeah, I heard warmer weather is on the way there.
3:56
Even...
3:57
The end of day nice, really nice days.
3:59
And now it's cold and rainy.
4:04
I need the rain so I can have that too much.
4:07
I am using my new computer for this call which I hadn't had Zoom installed on.
4:23
It's not my new computer.
4:24
It's my old computer from my office in Atlanta that...
4:28
Was your really big screen?
4:30
Exactly.
4:34
Yeah, so like I'll show you a little setup.
4:36
I think I'm coming out of retirement, David.
4:47
Really?
4:48
Yeah.
4:52
The project that I...
4:56
That's where Project led me to...
5:02
I was like, whoa, I'm just going to try and see what these AI models think about my business, the old business.
5:10
And that I totally lost interest in.
5:13
And it was just...
5:16
I was starting doing little things here and there, little improvements.
5:20
And it was having so much fun and still having so much fun.
5:25
It's like the best part of my old job was like solving problems creatively.
5:33
And then articulating what I imagined to offshore resources.
5:42
And then there was a less fun part about nagging the resources and following up.
5:49
And trying to have an attention span that can be patient but manage expectations of the external client.
6:01
And with AI it's like all the best parts of that.
6:08
I don't have to interact with anybody except the AI.
6:13
And it builds things in two hours I can build what would take me two months with a team.
6:25
So I'm having a lot of fun.
6:29
So much that I'm not even messing with the Esquire thing anymore.
6:36
And I'm staying up late.
6:38
Like last night I was like, kind of like are you going to come to bed?
6:41
Yeah, just a minute. I want to run one more test.
6:47
And like that was me in 2020.
6:52
I haven't pulled an all-nighter, but I don't plan to.
6:55
But being so engaged with work that I couldn't put it down, it's been a long time since I felt that.
7:05
And it's really got me kind of motivated and feeling like maybe I want to put the shingle back out and say open for development.
7:25
And you added that has been pretty shut down for the last couple of years?
7:30
Yeah, so when I parted with my ex business partner, which we had a divorce in 2021,
7:43
and we had worked together forever and in 2014, we created this commerce calling product.
7:54
And in 2020, I was like, I've had enough of you.
7:57
And I bought that from her and she bought from me the consulting business.
8:02
And we went our separate ways and I signed a three year no compete so that I wouldn't do any development.
8:10
But consulting. Well, that's passed.
8:14
And I had no interest in doing it honestly before.
8:17
But now it's like both the product that I walked away with and the consulting sounds like fun.
8:27
Just to get new projects to work on and new challenges and where I was feeling like a month ago,
8:36
I was feeling like, well, shit, there's no work for me ever in the future because this AI is taking it all out of my hands.
8:44
But we're not quite there yet.
8:48
And it's AI is most, I mean, besides being a tool for everyone's encyclopedia.
8:56
It's really having a huge benefit for software developers.
9:00
And so why not make hay and while the sun's shining and be a part of the gold rush,