I sometimes read these and wonder if I need to retrain. At my age, I’ll struggle to get a job at a similar level in a new industry.
And then I remember that the thing I bring to the table is the ability to turn domain knowledge into code.
Being able to do competitive coding challenges is impressive, but a very large segment of software engineering is about eliciting what the squishy humans in management actually want, putting it into code, and discovering as quickly as possible that it’s not what they really wanted after all.
It’s going to take a sufficiently long time for AI to take over management that I don’t think oldies like me need to worry too much.
And then I remember that the thing I bring to the table is the ability to turn domain knowledge into code.
Being able to do competitive coding challenges is impressive, but a very large segment of software engineering is about eliciting what the squishy humans in management actually want, putting it into code, and discovering as quickly as possible that it’s not what they really wanted after all.
It’s going to take a sufficiently long time for AI to take over management that I don’t think oldies like me need to worry too much.