Don't be. Your main asset is not what languages you know, what libraries, or what technology stacks, it's your ability to think critically and solve problems. I think that's what attracts many to the field. Look at the next few years as an opportunity to use those skills to maybe build something yourself. To carve out your own niche. To use your experience and the new tools that will be available to you to make something you simply wouldn't have been able to before. Do it in your spare time, or if you're #readyforwork, when you're on downtime from interviewing. Regardless, people with problem-solving skills will always be in demand, so try to showcase and highlight those skills, even above the programming languages, technology stacks, and other boring stuff.
I won’t say the rest is boring staff. Solving problems in real life is also fun.
Should have said less important stuff, as it's all transient unlike critical thinking and problem solving.
Life is more important than work. You need to use your skills to help more people directly, not capitalism.
I am a problem solver but industry demands specific technology
Learning technologies is not difficult if you know what to code.
“Rocket science is not difficult if you know rocket science”
Moreover even if AI can code very well, it'll be just like another layer of abstraction: binaries -> assembly -> low-level -> high-level -> AI. You would still be needing people with tech skills, instead of writing code they'll be writing prompts and evaluating the output.
Evaluating the output? You mean for the next 3-5 years? People have home loans for 40 years. Most of those loans are probably on the middle end and up. So what happens if suddenly SWEs become Prompt Engineers that take home 60k instead of 150k? Not to mention eventually becoming obsolete through the said work within 5 years or so. I really fear a big crash.
I don't think that would be the case. It's not like everyone can become a prompt engineer, you'll still need technical skills to understand the output given out by the AI. All production grade services would still be needing engineers to ensure the AI is spitting out the correct stuff required and align with a long term success of the projects.
SWEs being worried about the future are kinda lame. The whole industry is only a few decades old and has been constantly changing. Think how different things were 20 years ago. I have no idea why you'd choose this career if you weren't prepared for it.
Stuff has changed less than you give it credit for. Nothing truly paradigm shifting has happened in tech the last 20 years other than smartphone usage exploding but I'd argue that's more on the business side than the tech side. Plenty of people have spent their entire careers without any big shakeups and only small incremental changes. If AI keeps going like it looks like it might, we might be in for the biggest tech explosion since the dawn of the internet.
This. My career started pretty close to the dawn of the Internet, 43 years ago, and the basic workflow of our jobs had already been established a generation earlier. There’s been a gradual trend toward complexity of the language libraries available for us to use, and a significant ratcheting up of service-uptime expectations, but the daily challenges aren’t much different. There are 50 times as many of us now, so any prolonged down-cycle of demand is going to cause a lot of pain and will be career-ending for a huge number. The pandemic’s impact was straightforward and large: for decades, telecommuting aka WFH stayed in the range 10-15% of all hours worked. Some have always worked from home, a larger number worked a significant amount from home but not full-time. In an instant, expectations went to something like 40% (after the initial 90%+ stage that we endured for several months in 2020). The thing that has always been difficult, for me at least, is software test development. Most projects have incomplete, low-quality test frameworks because they are expensive to create and maintain, and the industry lacks cross-company standards because execs don’t see the value. I’m skeptical that AI, a 60-year-old industry, will live up to today’s hype as quickly as claimed. (Yes, it’s been around that long - I wrote a backup utility for my college campus in SAIL in 1980.) It will impact other white-collar jobs long before it affects SWEs. But a day of reckoning will eventually come.
I spend coding 25% of my time approx. The other 75% is stakeholder management, sharpening the axe, positioning tech... I'd love for that 25% to not be "how to do input validation with flask" and trawl through 200 results.
Congratz on releasing D4, sir 👹
No bro, the AI is taking my f*cking job!
This is a good post, blinds been full of” 3 hrs a week of work is too much” lately
The first paragraph tells it. Although the second part isn’t really what most thinks. Others see “i’m worried” based on the need to be employed by big companies that offers big TC that doesn’t perform well now
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Right now the biggest problem in United States is United States itself. Fix it and your avatar will be the most valuable asset in NFT
Why to stay then?
@randsome Maybe so that they can be part of the solution