I'm thinking pastry chef or line cook.
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I won't have to switch careers since I'm a software engineer instead of a developer that does nothing but implement specifications with no creativity or design work. I will have to keep up with the changing technology landscape though like I have been for my entire career.
Hardware that can assume the states you’d creatively conjure is on the way.
Your special literacy isn’t all that. It was a stop gap until hardware caught up. SWE gigs was something politics saw as a “create jobs” opportunity.
Chip makers see the opportunity is there to claim more of the tech valuations for themselves reducing the number of software “engineers” and are coming for ya with global politics on their side. Not just the normies sick of IT.
By sterlind 2025-05-0722:15 if robotics hasn't been solved yet, I'll become a robotics researcher. if robotics is solved, I'll research autonomous research. if automated research and robotics are solved, there are no more jobs. in any industry. at least not for long.
By scubadude 2025-05-083:06 I figure the AI is a long way from understanding why the dev environment is pointed to the test database, while the test environment is pointed to the dev database. lol
By benoau 2025-05-0723:18 Software, but not for someone else - it's time to be the primary beneficiary of our own work. The jobs are evaporating because AI can amplify our individual efforts into something much greater, and it can do it for us by ourselves too.
AI will create more jobs as it replaces tedious ones. There will always be more innovation and work, so don't worry! This is the same fear as the Internet age back in the days replacing stores, TV, media, etc. We will always continue to improve, and nothing stays stagnant -- there's always something new to discover.
At present, AI is starkly limited and not able to replace any job. At best, it can automate certain menial tasks, such as low-level support. In programming, it only works for non-trivial programs when used under the direction of an experienced programmer that breaks down the work into small steps the AI can perform.
You may be imagining a future where AI can do all jobs, but please be clear that this is your imagination. That future does not exist today and is not guaranteed to exist tomorrow. Before it can exist, a much simpler future where AI can replace any job has to exist, and that future doesn’t exist yet either.
this thread's premise assumes AI will make "developers" obsolete. jotjotzzz's comment assumes that AI will create new jobs to replace the old ones.
assuming the premise of the thread, that some hypothetical AI replaces all the developers, I was questioning why such a hypothetical AI would be able to do the work of developers, but not do the supposed "new jobs" jotjotzzz believes would arise.
basically, if AI ever becomes autonomous and general enough to fully replace developers, it will be autonomous and general enough to handle any new jobs that pop up too.
By locococo 2025-05-080:28 AI needs to be trained, it cannot create knowledge in a vacuum. I think that's why there will always be some augmentation by humans to provide the context and the knowledge
By matt_s 2025-05-0721:10 A good example is … Blockbuster is gone but we have Netflix. Sears is gone but we have Amazon. Those were internet age companies that we’ve seen come to having massive market shares now.
If AI follows suit, there will be a wasteland of nonsense “AI” companies followed by some industry shifting AI technology companies, in about 10-15 years we’ll see who’s left.
