Unless, of course, you want to be a software engineer.
If all there is to my career is checking generated code for correctness, then there is nothing of value in my career anymore.
That's not how it will be, though. At worst, there will still be niches I can fit in.
> Unless, of course, you want to be a software engineer.
It’s time to adapt to a changing world.
So we're all to become systems integrators? I'm genuinely happy that excites you. Personally, I find the prospect depressing.
> It’s time to adapt to a changing world.
How do you adapt to no longer being able to do what you love to do? Saying "it's time to adapt" doesn't address the fundamental issue here at all. Obviously, we have to adapt. The question is how to do that and, if happiness is no longer on the table, at least be able to maintain some amount of career satisfaction.
If I can't write software, then my career as a dev is over, no?
Humans gotta realize that we are all replaceable. What happens to the least of us, happens to us all.
Whatever we do about this AI stuff? We should do it for everything else, too.
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/west-virginia-co...
Change is hard, but it is possible, and one thing humans are good at that machines still can't do is to make our own meaning.
Wishing you the very best.
Nothing will make me happier than to be wrong about what I see coming.
I doubt there were that many who actually enjoyed digging coal as opposed to just having a relatively well paying job
Forget “love” how are we supposed to adapt when jobs seem to be increasingly specialized requiring ridiculous education costs and companies don’t want to train people anymore.
I understand that some engineers/developers struggle with this change, but it also seems to be a personal take on ground breaking changes which are shaking up this career path; which are positive for some, and negative for others. Maybe we are on two different part of the spectrum, because I can't wait to have my job reduced to prompting and building even bigger things. IF it was not that way, I would have been close to a career change. No doubt, these changes will introduce new engineering challenges, which will be equally as exciting and in need of an engineering mindset as the previous paradigms have been.
This isn't an issue of struggling with adapting to change. If it were just a matter of doing my job in a different way, that would be totally fine. This is an issue of seeing the sort of work that I enjoy -- the entire thing that drew me to this career -- evaporate completely.
But this all makes me sound more upset than I actually am. I'm very troubled, but I also only have a decade or two left in my career, so I think it's likely that I'll be able to find niche positions where I can keep doing what I love to do.
I do worry about younger devs who are in the business for similar reasons as me, though.