Your Mac is now Jarvis. Are you Iron Man yet?

When Tony Stark was riffing with Jarvis it felt like science fiction. That distance has collapsed. Today anyone with a laptop can talk to an assistant that feels just as sharp, and our job is learning how to partner with it.

The real shift for me as a developer is thinking like an orchestrator. I still love writing clean code, but I spend more of my energy weighing trade-offs, sequencing work, and shaping feedback loops instead of grinding through every implementation detail.

My old definition of progress was clearing sprint tickets with lo-fi beats in the background. Now the valuable output happens upstream: clarifying problems, documenting assumptions, and lining up the assets a coding agent needs to execute well.

Take something like adding analytics. I begin with a research sprint: capture the surface area of the app, the questions I want answered, the audiences I care about, and where privacy matters. That research doc becomes the source of truth.

Then I invite my coding agent into the process. I hand it the research doc, ask for a plan, and iterate. If the first pass is off, I tweak the prompt, ask it to defend choices, or generate an alternative path. The agent writes the code, but I stay responsible for the strategy.

Could I just say "integrate analytics" in one prompt? Sure--but that bypasses the real thinking. The quality of the system is directly tied to the quality of the research and direction I provide.

The best part is that thinking time stays flexible. Ideas hit when I am away from the desk, so I dump voice notes, feed them into the research console, and let Jarvis do the busywork later. We all have access to that superpower now--it simply needs a new working rhythm to unlock it fully.