I became a terminal native by accident, recovering from nearly drowning, with nothing to do but watch YouTube.
The path was a ladder. ChatGPT in a browser. Then an AI-first editor. Then coding agents you talk to instead of type at. Then a whole mesh of them. Each rung looked impossible from the one below and obvious from the one above.
If you're hunting for your thing in the AI era, stop waiting to feel ready. Ready is a thing you become on the way up, not before you start. Mine was sitting at the bottom of a very bad year. Yours might be too.
