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> honestly makes me worried about the future of the field in terms of whether it'll still be a good career in the future. I had the same thoughts back in the l

> honestly makes me worried about the future of the field in terms of whether it'll still be a good career in the future. I had the same thoughts back in the late 90's and early 00's. Everytime I told someone I was interested in CS, they thought it was because of the money. While working on the major many people told me my job was going to go overseas and that the future was in managing developers. In fact, during my first internship, my boss thought that way and said in the future programming would be done by low paid individuals overseas or that programs would be generated by computers from flow diagrams (which she liked creating). Things turned out differently and the field has grown and only become more lucrative. I only see the number of jobs for CS majors growing, and I actually wonder if there will be enough good programmers to fill them. Not everyone can write code, and I still run into developers who can barely code. If you're good at coding, you can go far. Additionally, I really enjoy programming. It's fun and rewarding to solve problems and to build things that people use. If you're good at coding, I wouldn't worry about the future, I see it being very bright.

phkahler 7y ago
>> While working on the major many people told me my job was going to go overseas and that the future was in managing developers. I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management. Everything will be outsourced and people here will just manage everything. This was an MIS major drinking the business school koolaid. I thought it was rather arrogant to think China or India could build anything under the sun but wouldn't be able to manage people and run a business... 20 years later many the companies that followed such thinking are gone or having problems.
- Gibbon1 7y ago
  I'm pretty sure the current spat with China is due to the Chinese gaining traction in a) Branded products. b) Product design. c) Distribution. d) Finance.
  - iliketosleep 7y ago
    No. It's China's market protectionism and one-way trade practices. For example, many products of major US companies are banned in China (think Google and Facebook). Whereas Chinese products are able to enter international markets with minimal barrier to entry. There are many more barriers for an American company to enter the Chinese market than the other way around. This is just part of it, there are many more aspects.
- tom_mellior 7y ago
  > I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management. I had a recruiter for programming jobs tell me at a job fair about 15 years ago that programming was essentially over in my country, in just a few years everything would be outsourced, and only software architect positions would be left. Turns out that people are bad at predicting the future. Similarly, the OP might have posted essentially the same question 20 years ago, minus the FAANG reference (Microsoft and IBM back then, maybe?). The answers are the same as back then: Nobody can predict the future, but so far we have failed to automate/compete ourselves out of well-paying jobs even though people have always claimed that that's only five years in the future.

phkahler 7y ago

>> While working on the major many people told me my job was going to go overseas and that the future was in managing developers. I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management. Everything will be outsourced and people here will just manage everything. This was an MIS major drinking the business school koolaid. I thought it was rather arrogant to think China or India could build anything under the sun but wouldn't be able to manage people and run a business... 20 years later many the companies that followed such thinking are gone or having problems.

Gibbon1 7y ago
I'm pretty sure the current spat with China is due to the Chinese gaining traction in a) Branded products. b) Product design. c) Distribution. d) Finance.
- iliketosleep 7y ago
  No. It's China's market protectionism and one-way trade practices. For example, many products of major US companies are banned in China (think Google and Facebook). Whereas Chinese products are able to enter international markets with minimal barrier to entry. There are many more barriers for an American company to enter the Chinese market than the other way around. This is just part of it, there are many more aspects.
tom_mellior 7y ago
> I had a friend in the 90s tell me the entire workforce in the US was shifting to management. I had a recruiter for programming jobs tell me at a job fair about 15 years ago that programming was essentially over in my country, in just a few years everything would be outsourced, and only software architect positions would be left. Turns out that people are bad at predicting the future. Similarly, the OP might have posted essentially the same question 20 years ago, minus the FAANG reference (Microsoft and IBM back then, maybe?). The answers are the same as back then: Nobody can predict the future, but so far we have failed to automate/compete ourselves out of well-paying jobs even though people have always claimed that that's only five years in the future.