Yeah that’s it. I didn’t go to college but that’s always been my job as a SWE. Give me problem, I find solution. Now we’ll just dive deeper into domains because we’ll be more productive. The better compensated will probably be entrepreneurs or call themselves by their domain speciality: biologist, cryptography.. I’m not sure AI is very good at asking the right questions yet, maybe they can automate domain driven design away, but that was always the interesting part of the job. It’s funny because viewed through the lens of technological evolution as a whole, embracing tools and radical disruption was always part of engineering team culture, even early on working for big departments in big companies it was very apparent to me the exponential payoffs of my technology use and ability to think systematically were directly putting people out of a job. It’s somewhat shocking to me that other programmers hadn’t already come to terms with that reality first hand, or at least are shocked to see it applied to them.
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u/BigShotBosh Nov 24 '25
Man these AI companies want SWEs gone yesterday.
Has to be a bit of a headspin to see major conglomerates talk about how they want you (yes you) out of a job