The AI Wave Is Finally Hitting Me

For the past few years, I always heard people saying the market is bad.

But honestly… I never really felt it.

Whenever I chat with friends in the industry, most of the conversation is about how slow things are, budgets getting cut, fewer projects coming in. Lots of bad news.

Still, my work kept going.
So it never really hit me directly.

But since last year, when the whole AI wave started booming — and continuing into this year — I had this feeling in the back of my mind.

As a developer, I might get hit by this wave sooner or later.

And now I think it’s happening.

Just this month alone, I lost one potential lead because the client decided to build the app himself using AI tools.

On top of that, two maintenance projects are ending.

Maintenance revenue usually makes up around 30–40% of my yearly income, so losing two at the same time is definitely a wake-up call.

Honestly, it’s a bit alarming.

But maybe this is the push I needed.

I strongly believe I need to speed up my pivot into products this year.

Because relying on building projects for others might slowly become a losing game.

So yeah… time to move faster on my own products.

That’s the plan.