Alex Hormozi has a solid definition of confidence:
You don’t become confident by shouting affirmations in the mirror, but by having a stack of undeniable proof that you are who you say you are.
Give yourself so much goddamn proof that you are the version of yourself you want to be, and you’ll become them.
To say AI is a confidence booster for me is an understatement. I’ve been able to ship more quality software than ever before. I take more time to really think through each feature , and the end results are better.
When wielded and applied properly, it lets you build things that were previously unimaginable, or at least unfeasible. It allowed me to find & fix an obscure bug in laravel/framework and have it merged for the next release . We’re fixing more bugs and adding more quality-of-life changes to Oh Dear weekly. I’m restarting side-projects, picked up blogging after a hiatus & genuinly fell in love with programming again.
Opus 4.8 and GPT 5.5 together work as skill-amplifiers. Are you decent at coding? Now you can be really good. Are you a good product developer? Now you have superpowers. If you’re not shipping more and better software than you were a year ago, I don’t know what to say.
Confidence is something you earn based on what you’ve done in the past. It lets you look forward with conviction that you can repeat it. Today, I’m confidently shipping. Nothing feels impossible anymore.