As someone who now spends my time conducting over a dozen interviews a week for senior software engineers, it absolutely breaks my heart that I can't tell a sma

As someone who now spends my time conducting over a dozen interviews a week for senior software engineers, it absolutely breaks my heart that I can't tell a smart, tech-loving 18-year-old to either learn to code or get a CS degree and go into software. I don't know which outcome I'd hate more: • It turns out that AI has hit a ceiling and in 20 years when I retire there will be no one left to do the complex work that senior engineers do today because we shut out a whole generation of engineers, or • AI continues to advance and no humans are even involved in software in 20 years