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> We are going from the era of manual, line-by-line mental model transcription to one where software engineers can focus on data structures, software architecture and algorithms.

Why? What makes you think your data structure design, architecture and algorithms are ever going to surpass AI in the near future?

You honestly can't see a (near) future where those 3 elements are done by AI, not by you?

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I can and I'd be okay with that too. The world doesn't have carriage makers anymore. Nobody is entitled to doing what they love or what they are good at. I certainly didn't as my job as a software engineer, despite being profitable, was far from what I like in the discipline.

That said, I think AI is still many years or decades away from completely replacing the Software Engineering profession. My kids are entering college right for a CS degree and that's what I tell them. I have skin in the game as I'm ultimately responsible for them.

I could be wrong, but anyone's opinion is at most an educated guess at this point.

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