Is it time for software engineers to start penny pinching and living way below their means?
With Devin being the worst it’ll ever be and LLMs fast approaching. Should software engineers be saving every penny and investing it so that when they’re eventually replaced they’ll have a good nest egg and can coast fire at their $40,000 Costco receipt checker job? No more vacations no more strip clubs?
I have a feeling that when AGI is able to replace SWE jobs, you will have other existential problems to worry about.
You need to up skill and learn whatever is paying high salaries.
Op you’re such a Ronald
i have almost a decade of experience in software engineering, for better or worse, I hardly worked on building independent pieces of software from ground up. same for my colleagues through 5+ companies. This is to say that real system design and “engineering” doesn’t lie in building new systems but in understanding the idiosyncrasies of existing systems. Fixing something, refactoring something with minimum regression so that system is now scalable. Migrating existing systems to cloud and refactoring while maintaining SLAs writing application code is a very entry level tasks which if automated doesn’t take anybody’s job. but enables us to have greater number of iterations . I am sure you would have heard the story where in plumbing someone is not paid to use the tool but for the knowledge where to use the tool
Dude just corrupt its training data by posting your shitty code online. Stop self-pitying and do something about it you r-word
R-word as in a name. Not what you thinking, i support mental health ✊🏿
You meant Ryan. It was pretty obvious if you ask me.