I really do think its basically over for most software engineers. There's obviously still challenges in writing code, but you can already get 80% of the way there, and with a senior engineer guiding a junior using genai, most peoples hard won skills are completely commoditized. It will take time for the tooling to catch up and be implemented, but I am operating as if I wont have stable employment in 3 years.
Also people are not looking at the math of it. If 40% of software engineering gets automated, thats a massive reduction in demand, and with the glut of engineers on the market, will crater salaries. It doesnt all need to be automated for it to basically crush SWE as a good career
AI changes the type of labor required to produce working software, which will result in a downward shift in wages
Also people are not looking at the math of it. If 40% of software engineering gets automated, thats a massive reduction in demand, and with the glut of engineers on the market, will crater salaries. It doesnt all need to be automated for it to basically crush SWE as a good career
AI changes the type of labor required to produce working software, which will result in a downward shift in wages