A Gen X coder exits the rat race

GenXit
Code

28 years in IT. Now building my own thing with AI, automation, and zero supervision.

$ exit_status
career.corporate terminated
independence.exe running
vibe_coding enabled
exit code: 0
The thesis

We were the latchkey kids. We figured it out alone then. We're doing it again now.

Gen X got handed the keys to an empty house and figured everything out without supervision. Explored creeks, crawled through drain pipes with flashlights, learned to pick up crayfish by getting pinched. Nobody was watching. That was the point.

Then we spent the next three decades under supervision. Government agencies, corporate structures, politically appointed leadership, career middle-managers who inherited IT as it was born and rode it forward at whatever speed their org allowed. Some of us built good things in those roles. All of us built them for someone else. And the ones with real drive felt the ceiling every single day.

Now AI just handed us a different set of keys — and for the first time since we were kids, nobody's supervising. GenXitCode is the channel for the ones crawling out from under the rock and making their own way. Vibe coding, AI integration, business automation, and the real messy truth about going independent after 28 years of dredging through someone else's org chart.

About

28
Years in IT
Gen X
Generation
0
Exit Code

Pete Sherlock — IT professional, automation specialist, and founder of Sherlock Aerotech LLC in Santa Barbara County. 28 years building systems for someone else's organization. Now building his own.

GenXitCode documents the transition: from employee to independent contractor, from manual processes to AI-powered automation, from following the playbook to writing a new one. The tools are AI, n8n, Power Platform, Claude, and whatever else works. The attitude is Gen X — figure it out, don't ask permission, and don't believe the hype until you've tested it yourself.

This isn't a tutorial channel. It's a build log for a life in transition.