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Question for those in the know: are IT jobs being affected the same as software engineering jobs with all the consolidation and AI?

Whats the outlook like?

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Like, IT helpdesk? Yes. Almost all of the tickets I create as a "knowledge worker" to my enterprise helpdesk are sloved by an AI assistant - group ownership, adding me to an app, etc.

I meant more generally - IT administration, Networking, DevOps etc.. as in, is it a shrinking field or a growing one?

Hard to tell, there's a lot of stagnation because of the larger market.

Some argue more apps means more plumbers and problem solvers, but we'll see.

Speculation: I think infra roles including on-prem are growing again, based on things I've seen.

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