Pratica di Shadowing: If I Had to Become a Software Engineer Again in 2026, I’d Do This - Impara a parlare inglese con i video

All right, guys, so I want to talk about what I would do

if I was starting over as a developer in 2026.

I started coding over a decade ago,

and the game has changed significantly.

Back then, there was nowhere near as much learning material as there is now,

so becoming a developer was more difficult,

and thus, it was easier to get a job,

right, and start making money.

Like, I put a year of work in,

released an app to the App Store,

and I think I had a job making six figures within a year.

So tech companies were just throwing money at developers because they were so hard to come by.

Now in 2026, it's just a completely different ballgame.

So you have people that have been coding for years at this point,

might have a couple apps in the app store and they're still struggling to get jobs.

You have people with experience that are still struggling to get jobs.

So what would I do if I was starting over in 2026?

Well, the first thing I'd do is I would be building apps, right?

You're seeing stories every single day.

If you check out YouTube channels like Starter Story

or Super Bowl of people building

and launching apps almost purely with AI some of these people have zero coding experience

and they're building apps that can make money

and some of them are making crazy amounts of money right

like you look at something like calai that's worth they got

bought for tens of millions of dollars at this point

and stupid apps like screen blockers

that force you to do push-ups before you can start using instagram are making 30 40 50 k a month

so if i was a developer right now today i would be focusing purely on building things

and that gives you two advantages one your it builds your portfolio

so you can show off to potential employers

or clients to get contract work that you have apps live in the app store

and they don't even have to be making money it doesn't

have to be the next instagram you just need to get something out in the app store

and honestly with tools like codex claude code cursor whatever it

is you can put something decent together in a matter of weeks at this point

so i would come up with a couple app ideas

that i thought were profitable and you could literally just copy ideas

that are already making money and i would start building

that releasing them to the app store baking in in a subscription model for revenue generation

and seeing if you can start generating revenue for yourself that way.

And people are doing that,

like I said, every single day.

And the reason that's a twofold advantage is because not only can you build apps to start making you money,

but they can help land you contracts.

They can help land you actual jobs.

And that's essentially what I would be focusing all of my time on in 2026.

Obviously, if you really just want to lean into getting a job and having a stable income,

that makes sense too.

Here at AppStuff, we have interview courses to help you do that.

We also have a ton of courses

that will help you just level up your skills as an iOS developer

because the reality is you can't rely purely on AI to do this stuff.

I've stepped into projects that were purely vibe coded and I can't begin to tell you how bad the code bases were.

So the developers that are going to win in 2026 are people

that have enough of an understanding of how to code

and how software works at a high level to be able

to guide some sort of AI code generation into actually building you a quality product.

So that's what I'd be focusing on.

Now, in terms of the blueprint for how to actually build these things,

it's easy to go out on the internet

and just find blueprints of what people have done with their build stories to get started with this stuff.

So come up with a couple ideas,

start putting pen to paper,

and actually getting these apps built out and launched in the app store.

And you could build two to three out in a matter of months, man.

It's like the new world is crazy.

And I'm actually doing that on a day-to-day basis.

Like I have about five,

six apps that I want to release this year myself,

I'm sort of leaning away from the education side of my business

and starting to focus on actually building things because it's becoming so easy.

For example, I just started an AI company where I'm actually going to be,

I've already landed contracts, helping businesses automate their processes and reducing overhead with having to hire people by introducing AI.

Now, I don't know a lot about AI.

I don't know a lot about web development,

but I know enough about software engineering to be able to actually start putting these things together.

I have this app I'm building for this company and it's about 20,000 lines of code right now.

I didn't write a single one of those lines of code,

but I know enough to be able to read the code,

read the output that the AI is giving me and tell it what it's doing wrong and what it's doing well.

And because I have that knowledge of 10 years of experience,

I'm able to do that and actually put a quality piece of software together.

So that's what I'd be leaning into in 2026.

And the next thing I would lean into is documenting your journey.

I can't tell you guys how many contracts I've landed from just having a network on social media.

And you're seeing a lot of YouTube content do extremely well right now,

centered around people building things.

And that not only helps build your following,

but it gets you exposure for your product.

So a style of content that I'm leaning into with this type of stuff

that we're doing now and stuff I plan on doing in the near future is gonna be focused on build stories.

And that way, like I said, you accomplish two things.

You get exposure for your product and you start to build a following,

which you will undoubtedly get follow-up work from.

I think I mentioned this a little bit before,

but I landed a $30,000 app contract from working in a coffee shop that we were just at.

And it was just from introducing myself to people,

telling them what I do,

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using my credentials as like an ex-meta engineer.

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I know not everybody has that to actually land this contract.

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And it was a piece of cake, man.

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So expanding your network as a developer in 2026 is massive.

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Making content is almost necessary.

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And it doesn't have to be you in front of a camera.

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Not everyone's good in front of a camera,

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but you should be documenting this stuff on LinkedIn X, and maybe Instagram.

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So that's another great way to start getting exposure for yourself as a developer and the products that you're building.

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And lastly, guys, I would make sure that you're not just going from tutorial project to tutorial project.

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You need to focus on building one thing really, really well.

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So a problem I see with a lot of my students

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when they send me their resumes for review is that they just have a bunch of like toy projects in their portfolio.

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And ultimately, that makes people not take you seriously.

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Like if you have a project that's not completely polished from top to bottom.

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The UI, the UX, the functionality,

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what it does, the monetization of it, the marketing behind it.

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People aren't going to take you seriously.

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And you just look like another person that treated coding as this sort of hobby, right?

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If you're really trying to make a living off this stuff,

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you need to treat yourself like a professional.

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Compare yourself to an athlete.

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Are you a hobbyist or are you actually trying to go pro at this?

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It's the same type of concept.

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If you look at the guy who just plays soccer or softball on the weekends,

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he's not that good.

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People don't take him seriously to actually do this for a living.

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But if you look at the guy who's making sure that he's on his diet,

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training every day, taking it seriously,

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and actually moving towards an end goal of trying to make money at this thing,

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that's the guy who's going to beat you out.

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So there's a difference between being a hobbyist and actually going pro at this.

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And if you want to go pro,

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you need to make sure that the products

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that you put out to the public are high quality products

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that are a reflection of what you'll actually build for that person.

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So for someone, you essentially need credentials behind what you're doing.

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Like for me, it's easier because I worked at Meta.

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So people know what I'm doing.

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If you didn't work at a company like Meta,

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or you just, maybe you've had a job at a startup here and there,

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people don't know if you're actually good at what you do.

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If you can have an app in the app store that they can go download right then and there and say,

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hey, this is what I've built.

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And it communicates that you know how to build a high quality product.

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That's how you're going to like separate yourself from competition in this space.

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But overall, man, those are the top three things that I think I would be doing as a developer in 2026.

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If I was starting over,

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these are actually things that I do in my day-to-day life

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when it comes to building software and making sure that I have recurring revenue from my apps,

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my education business, and the new clients that I'm trying to acquire with this AI business that I've started.

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Documenting the journey and taking advantage of social media platforms

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and making sure that you build high quality products is essentially the advice I'm giving you is what I'm taking myself.

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That's what I'm currently doing right now as a developer with over 10 years of experience.

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And I have the credentials of working at Meta and stuff.

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So I don't even really need to do all this,

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but it just gives me an advantage over people that aren't.

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Thanks for watching this one, guys.

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We'll see you later.

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Peace.

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