Interview with Stuart Mason — How AI Is Impacting Him as a Developer
20 years in the profession. Hasn't written a line of code since October. We talked about what that actually means.
Stuart Mason is a senior software developer at a large enterprise — and one of the most honest people I’ve had on about what AI is doing to this profession from the inside.
We’ve worked together for years, so this one got real pretty fast.
We cover developer identity, hype vs. reality, what’s actually working day-to-day, enterprise adoption (and why it’s more of a psychological problem than a technical one), the code vs. no-code debate, building SaaS products solo, career uncertainty, and the agent-on-a-machine paradigm that’s quietly changing how some of us work.
No scripts. No product pitches. Just two people in the middle of it trying to figure out what’s actually happening.