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There seems to be a lot of dissenting opinion on how these tools will affect software engineering jobs. Those of us that have deep architectural skills, are ab
by superb-owl 4y ago
There seems to be a lot of dissenting opinion on how these tools will affect software engineering jobs.
Those of us that have deep architectural skills, are able to deal with ambiguous requirements, balance UX with technical limitations, etc, will be safe for a good while.
Those of us that were trained in bootcamps to crank out MEAN/MERN/etc apps might be in a bit of trouble.
I say this not to disparage the latter group--many are great engineers who do great, reliable work. But it's ultimately rote work, something LLMs excel at.
There is a huge tranche of SWEs who are going to become redundant soon. Lots of them gave up careers as teachers etc for a more lucrative career in tech. It's unfortunate.
- lordnacho 4y agoQuestion is whether you have to go through the bootcamp stage to become an architect? Like many skills, you often start with the simple stuff.
- superb-owl 4y agoYeah I'm wondering the same thing. How do we train up the next generation of SWEs given the new world we live in? Interesting times.
- hyperhopper 4y agoI'm hoping the AI scare and layoffs stop people from flocking to software engineering. Less supply of us means more demand, higher wages, better working conditions. Especially with how things are going, the last thing we want is a new generation of swes to compete with the dwindling amount of jobs.
- mrbombastic 4y agoI would think whatever we consider today as mid-level would become the expectation for entry-level. It would be nice if we had a culture of apprenticeship in our industry though.
- analognoise 4y agoBusiness isn't rational. They won't think "if we don't have someone do the rote stuff in 20 years, we will have no architects." All they think is "right now it's cheaper so we'll do that".