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Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future? I suppose that I agree to a certain extent - I feel less exhausted at the end of each day, I think, beca
by nathan_douglas 7mo ago
Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future?
I suppose that I agree to a certain extent - I feel less exhausted at the end of each day, I think, because a lot of the tedium of dealing with boilerplate and implementation details can be smoothed away with AI. I do enjoy my current position more than I have ever before.
But I don't know if I'm optimistic about the future. I think software engineers are still essential, or at least that the skill of software engineering is still essential, but I don't know if the market will have fully internalized that knowledge soon enough.
What do you think?
- rvz 7mo agoOne hint I will give you is to prepare for 2030. If I were you, I would focus on the core essentials of CS and truly understanding what you are building, even with AI. Ignore both the AI boosters and the doomers on either extreme side of this as they are both wrong and have incentives to hype at investors. So to answer your question: > Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future? Of course. Employment will change, but to separate yourself is to know what needs to be built rather than just building for the sake of building because you can with AI.
- rakejake 7mo ago> I don't know if the market will have fully internalized that knowledge soon enough This exactly. I am neither a boomer nor a doomer. It has helped a lot both at work and in accelerating my personal projects. But now that the C-suite and middle management has jumped on the agentic bandwagon, I'm unsure where this will go and what casualties ensue. At the very least, in the short term there's going to be a lot of "Now that we have agents, this project should be achievable in half the time".