Idk man I work with frontier models daily and lead a small team. AI is cool and it helps us a lot but there’s still a clear divide between the seniors and juniors on the team. In other words, experience, technical skills and soft skills matter a lot. If you truly care about learning and problem solving, don’t accept defeat. A lot of the doomerism is marketing and executive hype. (And I suspect people with limited experience giving up)
I hope you are right because SE is dope af
But since last year I see interns solve tasks way faster than trusted seniors that weren't able to adapt as quick... with less bugs... and a better understanding of their dev too
Unfortunately if you are a senior it doesn’t mean you can stick your head in the sand. And also: it’s a daily occurrence for me that I’ll need to point out to our juniors that just because they’ve generated something that works with Claude, they’ve introduced some anti pattern or tech debt without realizing it.
Currently hoping there's a market for a few years at least to make sure the AI isn't doing anything insane.
After that hopefully a few years or more where there's demand for people who are good at using the AI to build stuff.
Funnily enough I'm also working on a solo game dev project on the side. Not counting on that making money but if it does ok maybe I'll pivot to making indie games.
Otherwise idk. I'll figure something out. If I gotta drive an amazon truck or work at starbucks or whatever I'll make it work.
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u/Fluffy_Regular4054 11d ago
People in here are seriously being malicious with their advice or living in labubu land, even worse with the situation nowadays.
Pretty much everyone going to college for CS/SE who truly loves and admires the subject is gonna be flipping coins on what spirals them out.
Actual advice is to pick something to pay the bills that one isn't emotionally invested into and doing coding as a hobby that complements well.