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Comment by gabrieledarrigo | Hacker News Reader

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gabrieledarrigo

> Looking at the countless repetitive posts on HN, it shows what HN programmers are afraid of. They're afraid of the destruction of their overall meta-methodology.

I think this already happened. What's hard to swallow for us is the countless years spent studying, researching, and investing our time to be the best possible professionals in a very demanding, skill-intensive industry.

Now that software development is starting to be industrialized, I think it's fair to react with fear and uncertainty.

Yep, we are trying to find new strategies and methodologies to still stay relevant, but I think they'll become obsolete soon once the technology reaches a maturity point for full automation and the industrialization of the development process.

What it will look like, I don't know (I have a few guesses), but what I know is that I'll struggle a lot, in the middle of my forties, to reskill myself, especially considering a country of no opportunities like Italy.

> In that sense, I think the recent post from Jane Street is more like a new solution.

Can you please share it?

> What it will look like, I don't know (I have a few guesses), but what I know is that I'll struggle a lot, in the middle of my forties, to reskill myself, especially considering a country of no opportunities like Italy.

Similar thing for me. Canada doesn't have tons of opportunity and I don't even know what I would want to even try

And do I want to spend a couple of years reskilling knowing that AI is coming for that work too? And general purpose robotics is nipping at the heels of physical labor too. That's assuming I'm even physically fit enough to attempt a more physical job

I don't view AI as a productivity booster. I think it is a human mulching machine.

Similar situation here, am a senior dev with 26 years in the industry and now some management experience.

Some of my guys are getting massively productive, some are not really catching the wave. But me … I feel like the joy of coding has been sucked out from under me, and I see the (very sharp) product guys being more and more able to tell Claude rather than ask a developer. If they can perform 90% of what we were doing and fulfill customer needs, probably faster, who needs us any more?

I’ve started wondering if it’s too late to retrain as an electrician.

Honestly, I'm scared too. I think both of our countries lack opportunities. If you look at intergenerational mobility, we're pretty similar on average. But on the flip side, I also believe that if you catch the new wave well, you can find something new. That's probably just self-rationalization, though. One post I enjoyed reading was this one [1]. [1]https://blog.janestreet.com/formal-methods-at-jane-street-in...

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