People from all walks of life, many far more vulnerable and less fortunate than you, will eventually face the same fate. And I believe that, as some of the earliest casualties of AI, we have an almost sacred responsibility to soften the blow for those who come after us. For generations, we've tied our sense of purpose and self-worth to what we do, what we earn, and how good we are at it. AI is about to challenge that on an unprecedented scale. We must develop strategies and frameworks for finding joy, purpose, and meaning in things that have nothing to do with economic value. But there's an extraordinary opportunity here, too. A once-in-a-millennium chance to steer society toward something more caring, more social, more humane. A world where human worth isn't measured by economic usefulness. That future won't happen by itself. If we don't help shape it, the world your boy grows up in will be shaped by big corpo and utterly clueless politicians instead. So start with what you already have: your skills. Remember the response to Cards for Ukraine, heisse-preise.io, and similar projects? How did it feel to build something that genuinely mattered to people? Nobody gave a flying fuck about your tech stack, your frameworks, or how clever your code was. What mattered was that you cared enough to build something that helped. I'm working on a few charitable projects myself, and seeing people genuinely grateful for something I've built has done more for my sense of purpose than any professional achievement lately. Turns out, being valuable to others is very different from being valuable to the economy, your professional peers, or even your own ego. And please, get out of the programmer bubble. Touch grass. Hike a mountain. Invite your normie friends over. Talk about anything but AI. There's an entire world out there that couldn't care less about the latest model release. We're all in this together, but we can't let AI consume every corner of our existence. Especially when the whole point is to rediscover how much more there is to life than the work we happen to be good at. A guy I greatly respected long before he became one of the rising stars of the AI scene once told me something that's stuck with me ever since: Be the change you want to see in the world. I can't think of a better time to take that seriously. Thanks for coming to my TED talk.