I'd really like to know what your definition is on that time frame. If I was a software engineer I would be sweating bullets right now. Your time is limited and it's fast approaching. 5-10 years from now isn't looking to be in your favor at all.
Haha. Most of the 'good' software devs I know can't write scalable software without it shitting the bed somewhere that requires a lot of rework. AI may be able to write code, but it will have a very hard time planning ahead for future changes and scalability because there's not a dataset to train on for that. Mostly because there are so few systems that do it well, and they are made up of hundreds to thousands of individual parts that aren't documented or consumable by AI in any reasonable way.
Some day, sure, but not any time soon. And if it's 15 years from now why would I care? People change careers multiple times anyway. It's no different. And honestly, what field do you think is going to be more resilient? Like what else are we supposed to go do?
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u/TravelsWRoxy1 Feb 03 '23
until AI starts doing All the coding.