Are SWEs we doomed?
Hi everyone this is a serious question, what is your backup once its over for us? I don’t think two years down the line we would have jobs once AI takes over? Where are you going to pivot?
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Take a 10-min AI interview to qualify for numerous real jobs auto-matched to your profile 🔑What doomed? There are a million other kinds of roles in the society, if you're an educated person with skills in computers.
Go and do an MBA, or Masters in Engineering, and pivot into some other branch of engineering or business jobs.
Worst case, people will always need education and training, so start some business in Education or Education-tech training or teaching kids and adults.
Software engineering was one kind of role we were performing for the society. If the need for that gets reduced, then we will all go and perform some other roles for the society and economy 🤷♂️
Easier said then done, think about people with mortgages and education loans
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AI will take over jobs in 2 years? 😂 C'mon man, what's going on at Salesforce lmao
Jokes apart - More AI generated code means more things to review. More AI tools means deeper software penetration in newer industries - which still requires humans to review and discuss and plan and move things forward. Code will become q cheap commodity - but the actual hard parts of building products like deciding what to build, for whom all while keeping business context and other stakeholders in line - that will continue to remain.
Many of us might function like EMs function today - lot of reviews and management and planning but very less actual code writing (since AI will handle that)
This doesn't mean that it's over for juniors btw - I'm sure the paradigms will shift and our way of approaching these problems at a junior level will also adapt.
We are just getting started folks.
Nothing specific at Salesforce but after opus 4.6 release things are getting way beyond what we thought, AI is becoming self sufficient and helping build a better version of itself as per amodei. What makes you think the review and decision making won’t be done by AI. Let’s say what you say is true and I really hope it is but wouldn’t there still be a lot of job cuts?
Jevons paradox.
Yes & No.
People with academic and intellectual rigor with a knack for research skills are gonna thrive in AI era.
People good at coding+marketing will make money by building indie saas apps making money like gig work.
People who came into tech just by studying study material from bhaiya, didi etc will have a tough time.
Whoever thinks they're in 3rd category which most people from Indian IT community are unfortunately, should start saving up money, pivot to materials business or maybe learn farming to cultivate food on small land to cut down expenses and become self sufficient.
Research skills will be the top requirement from now.
In Product environment some Service ka tadka (although my client is product based org) we were discussing an project estimation and presented it before the management we all were in sync until some other vertical came with some agentic development tool and reduced and delivered there product within 3 months so almost 9 months of faster delivery with AI and now again management came to us giving us one course to complete and told us to revisit our estimates and YES AI is real stuff which I was is delusion that will remain AI and will not catch us but mind you it did all the things in 3 months which a team needes to do in an year so yes things are not changing they are already with us.
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Is it something you know that we don’t?
Yes we are doomed
does AI build by itself ?! and if so upto what level ?! if everything is on AI then even CEO job is also at risk.lets assume AI is doing everything except owners job then what about cities!! people who has ancestoral property at villages they will move out of cities.. who pays the tax ?! let me tell you this AI will swallow or may learn to do faster jobs in few domains but AI cannot do everything . next you can observe AI based companies will start giving costlier monthly subscriptions with which BIG4 can withstand but i am damn sure every company in the universe will not do the same they compare cost implement what is required to thier cost level ( partial human employment and partial AI involvement)
On the other other we would all the pooping by AI codes will be reeking enough that SWE will be ramped up to clean the sheets....
Bc tum sab faltu me tension le rahe ho..
AI is replacement of mundane activities.
It will just replace level 1 folks with level 2 folks, where max mundane work happens.
the folks who are already in tech.. will survive, will thrive.
It's harder for the folks who wants to enter tech, as people/tech industry expects SDE1 jobs to be done by an intern, so, bar has been raised for new comers.
Similar Example:
SDE1, SDE2 will be new SDE1.
SDE2, SDE3 will be new SDE2.
L1 support, L2/L3 support will be new L1 support.
PM who was for 1 product, will be PM for 2/3 products.