Today Quincy Larson interviews Justin Searle. He’s a software engineer who founded a software agency 15 years ago that’s still running – even after he figured out how to make a lot of money fast and retired at age 38 when he had enough savings.
These days he has moved from solving client problems to solving problems for himself by building open source software. Often use emerging tools such as agents. He says that he is now working more than ever.
They talk about:
How software development is ceasing to be a team sport and is now more about individual devs working directly for the people who pay them.
How verifiable everything is – whether it’s agents or humans contributing to your codebase
How someone just entering the field can use emerging tools to gain an edge over more experienced developers.
Note that we do not edit or censor these interviews. Justin uses some pretty blunt language so you don’t want to hear that around little kids.
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