Here's a quick transcript, in case it's useful or someone doesn't want to visit the bird site: > Person: Hey John, I hope you are well. I am really passionate

Here's a quick transcript, in case it's useful or someone doesn't want to visit the bird site: > Person: Hey John, I hope you are well. I am really passionate about CS (specifically Software Engineering) and I want to pursue a career in it. But I can't help but be a bit concerned about the future availability of coding jobs due to AI (chatgpt4 and stuff). I understand it's hard to predict how things will be in the next 10-15 years, but my main concern is that I may be putting in all this hard work for nothing I'm concerned AI will make my future job(s) obsolete before I even get it. Any thoughts on this? > John: If you build full "product skills" and use the best tools for the job, which today might be hand coding, but later may be AI guiding, you will probably be fine. > Person: I see... by "product skills" do you mean hard and soft skills? > John: Software is just a tool to help accomplish something for people — many programmers never understood that. Keep your eyes on the delivered value, and don't over focus on the specifics of the tools. > Person: Wow I've never looked at it from that perspective. I'll remember this. Thanks for your time. Much appreciated. To me, that seems like a fair stance to take, though I feel like things will definitely change somewhat in the next decade or two. While some might have scoffed at the likes of IntelliSense previously, features like that proved themselves as useful for a variety of projects over time; we might eventually be dealing with GPTSense to enrich the development process and those who don't might find themselves at a bit of a disadvantage. Copilot is already a step in that direction, maybe eventually we'll get something for static code analysis and recommendations: "This project uses pattern X in Y places already, however you've written this code in pattern Z despite it mostly being similar to existing code in file W. Consider looking at whether it'd be possible to make the style more consistent with the rest of the codebase. [Automatically refactor] [Compare files] [Ignore]". It might be nice to have something automated look at my code and tell me that I'm doing things different than 99% of the civilized world and offer my suggestions, as well as allow me to ask questions - even when I'm hacking on something at 1 AM and any would be mentors are asleep.