> By comparison, software engineering is entirely digital, exponentially scalable, and always behind schedule. It’s the perfect target for a hostile takeover.

> By comparison, software engineering is entirely digital, exponentially scalable, and always behind schedule. It’s the perfect target for a hostile takeover. So, as an engineer, it may be more inherently job-secure to work with a software engineering market that is required to be somewhat analog, is inherently less scalable, and generally easy to keep on schedule (likely because that's not where the real problems are for that market, or they don't really care about measurements of time in proportion to traditional engineering environments). In a context like that, any prospective AI takeover will automatically be awkward, a risky business bet by its very nature, and inherently resisted by stakeholders for good reasons. Grass is greener for AI elsewhere, and will be for decades at a minimum. You'd want to connect your services further up the chain toward where people with hearts and loneliness and all the other human foibles dwell. People who need people. And you'd want to take on the burden of dealing with AI on behalf of those people. (A lot of engineers already do this...)