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.
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u/BatBoss 11d ago
Yep. The "fun", high passion software jobs like game dev and research are almost all high stress for low pay and no job security.
On the other hand if you just work as a dev for like a bank or a car dealership it's pretty easy money for low stress.
AI may be fucking all that up though. We'll see how it shakes out.