Comment by bloomingkales | Hacker News Reader

Comment by bloomingkales | Hacker News Reader

If you want my honest to god real world advice:

1) Keep your stable job and don’t hop right now.

2) Why? AI is eating jobs and traditional enterprise companies are a good place to last AWHILE into the end of programming as we know it.

3) I am truly scared of job postings where the company has not pivoted entirely to AI. They sell products that can be reimagined or replaced by AI at the moment, so those jobs are the real ghost jobs. Seriously, all I can think is “how exactly will this company be here in a year, AI can generate a lot of this”.

4) So, stay safe. Stay invested, ride the AI investment thesis up, glide through the end of programming, and exit into the world of basic income/social security into retirement. It’s not a fantasy world out there where you just get to seek out the exact company fit anymore. The economy is being rewritten.

This is doomer mindset. If you sit and wait and do nothing AI will eat your job as you said (or likely you will always have a job supporting legacy software because AI isn't trained on your obscure, undocumented in house framework that was written 15 years ago that nobody understands)

You afraid of AI and want to remain relevant? Same as it ever was, get with the times. Figure out how to get LLMs into your workflow. Figure out how AI works and how to embed it into your product so that it actually improves it.

> If you sit and wait and do nothing AI will eat your job

If you sit and do nothing, doing nothing will eat your job. AI will have had nothing to do with that.

AI is only replacing jobs in departments with leads that have zero idea of what they're doing. Once they realize that you can't say, "hey make my app" and have everything setup and ready to go for you, those companies are going to be paying out the ass to contractors to cleanup the mess they created for themselves.

The same thing happened with outsourcing overseas years ago. As many have said before, writing code is the easy part.

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