>When I look back at my career path, I remember how I actively steered myself to be at the most demanded role within boundaries of my interest. Each job change, voluntary or not, was a step up.
Yes, but here's the problem: Those steps behind you are being destroyed. It's not the senior engineers who are getting replaced; it's the people fresh out of college looking for their first job. And as AI gets better each step above that first job will disappear.
You'll be fine. Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone. But when you look around you're not going to see any young people.
> Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone
Given the pace of AI development I don't think that's guaranteed. The game is to stay on top of the AI even if it means expanding your interests from programming to mostly product management.
Right? The whole rhetoric around "it's just the juniors" is the most "4. bargaining <- you are here" thing that keeps getting posted all over the place. I don't get it. How can you look at the progress in the past 3 years (in a month now) since chatgpt was first released and say "oh, it's definitely just the juniors, all seniors are safe"???
In the enterprise consulting space, I see myself increasingly working with more with low-code/no-code tools, AI agents, and being dragged into architecture activitivies.
Classical programming, the stuff to do in .NET, Java, Go whatever, from the ground up is eroding away.
Ready made products get acquired, integrations that were done via serverless/microservices, are now being tried with AI agents, and the only thing left as technical task is drawing diagrams, and letting the few coders that are still around where they should click, or a couple of MCP tools to be made available.
> For example, a caricature unambitious person who learned one job, not demanding, but stable and safe. They do their nine to five, make weekend plans, and wait for retirement.
I bet he his in US, from all countries, it seems to be the one with more people that see work for live as some kind of sin, to be looked down upon, one has to work every second of their lives, when not they are being lazy.
Especially around SV culture, this goes over the top.
Is this satire, because it reads like satire. If most dev work is replaced, and I think its a big if by now, clearly thousands will be out if a job, they cant all will themselfs into a senior management position. Besides, it would probably be easier to replace the managers with AI.
>When I look back at my career path, I remember how I actively steered myself to be at the most demanded role within boundaries of my interest. Each job change, voluntary or not, was a step up.
Yes, but here's the problem: Those steps behind you are being destroyed. It's not the senior engineers who are getting replaced; it's the people fresh out of college looking for their first job. And as AI gets better each step above that first job will disappear.
You'll be fine. Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone. But when you look around you're not going to see any young people.
> Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone
Given the pace of AI development I don't think that's guaranteed. The game is to stay on top of the AI even if it means expanding your interests from programming to mostly product management.
> I don't think that's guaranteed.
Right? The whole rhetoric around "it's just the juniors" is the most "4. bargaining <- you are here" thing that keeps getting posted all over the place. I don't get it. How can you look at the progress in the past 3 years (in a month now) since chatgpt was first released and say "oh, it's definitely just the juniors, all seniors are safe"???
Seniors are definitly not safe.
In the enterprise consulting space, I see myself increasingly working with more with low-code/no-code tools, AI agents, and being dragged into architecture activitivies.
Classical programming, the stuff to do in .NET, Java, Go whatever, from the ground up is eroding away.
Ready made products get acquired, integrations that were done via serverless/microservices, are now being tried with AI agents, and the only thing left as technical task is drawing diagrams, and letting the few coders that are still around where they should click, or a couple of MCP tools to be made available.
> For example, a caricature unambitious person who learned one job, not demanding, but stable and safe. They do their nine to five, make weekend plans, and wait for retirement.
The horror. People making weekend plans.
I bet he his in US, from all countries, it seems to be the one with more people that see work for live as some kind of sin, to be looked down upon, one has to work every second of their lives, when not they are being lazy.
Especially around SV culture, this goes over the top.
I hope this guy gets his life destroyed by AI taking his job because jesus christ he sounds like a cunt.
What absolute fucking self-congratulatory drivel.
The fallacy of the argument is that someone has to live on a region where these kind of transitions are available on the existing job pool.
Is this satire, because it reads like satire. If most dev work is replaced, and I think its a big if by now, clearly thousands will be out if a job, they cant all will themselfs into a senior management position. Besides, it would probably be easier to replace the managers with AI.
what a despicable person
https://imgur.com/a/ZnVaVKT
Sure, Mr. Palpatine. Any time now.