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Ask HN: With O3 progression, how should juniors plan our careers

7 points by whizusukite 2y ago

With the advent of new O3 progressions, what are some recommendations for early/mid-career software engineers to maximize their job growth prospects in the future? What skills will be more sought after? What skills will be the most important? It seems more generic software engineer roles may become more saturated. Curious to hear other thoughts on this.

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CliveBloomers 2y ago
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- whizusukite 2y ago
  Appreciate this, was incredibly helpful.
- jareds 2y ago
  If your correct then most businesses will go out of business. If all you need is a CEO and the cloud who are you going to sell your products to if no one can buy anything because they've all been fired?
- lagrange77 2y ago
  You're safe, i guess, at least if you team up with the trailer voice guy.
- syndicatedjelly 2y ago
  Time to become the CEO then
extr 2y ago
If every car is self driving, there is still the question of where to go.
- whizusukite 2y ago
  That's true. My thoughts are that at a more junior/mid-level, many of the problems assigned to engineers are smaller and more well-defined. They also involve a lower depth compared to projects at a senior levels or above. I can imagine these tasks are more along the lines of what O3 or similar AIs will excel at. I'm interested in where junior/mid-level engineers should target their learnings to adapt to these areas.
marssaxman 2y ago
What are "O3 progressions"? This thread is the first result when I search, and everything else on the page has something to do with military ranks.
- Jtsummers 2y ago
  o3: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/openai-announces-o3-and-o3-mini-its-next-simulated-reasoning-models/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/opena... Or this discussion at #1 now and on the front page for several hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473321
  - marssaxman 2y ago
    Thanks!
jryan49 2y ago
I would suggest to stop trying to predict the future, and carry on as normal... There is no way to really predict how AI will pan out. There always has been a trade off of being a generalist vs specialist. Probably good to try to be both. If something actually happens that require us to adapt we can figure it out then.

7 points by whizusukite 2y ago

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CliveBloomers 2y ago

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whizusukite 2y ago
Appreciate this, was incredibly helpful.
jareds 2y ago
If your correct then most businesses will go out of business. If all you need is a CEO and the cloud who are you going to sell your products to if no one can buy anything because they've all been fired?
lagrange77 2y ago
You're safe, i guess, at least if you team up with the trailer voice guy.
syndicatedjelly 2y ago
Time to become the CEO then

extr 2y ago

If every car is self driving, there is still the question of where to go.

whizusukite 2y ago
That's true. My thoughts are that at a more junior/mid-level, many of the problems assigned to engineers are smaller and more well-defined. They also involve a lower depth compared to projects at a senior levels or above. I can imagine these tasks are more along the lines of what O3 or similar AIs will excel at. I'm interested in where junior/mid-level engineers should target their learnings to adapt to these areas.

marssaxman 2y ago

What are "O3 progressions"? This thread is the first result when I search, and everything else on the page has something to do with military ranks.

Jtsummers 2y ago
o3: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/openai-announces-o3-and-o3-mini-its-next-simulated-reasoning-models/ https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/12/opena... Or this discussion at #1 now and on the front page for several hours: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473321 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42473321
- marssaxman 2y ago
  Thanks!

jryan49 2y ago

I would suggest to stop trying to predict the future, and carry on as normal... There is no way to really predict how AI will pan out. There always has been a trade off of being a generalist vs specialist. Probably good to try to be both. If something actually happens that require us to adapt we can figure it out then.