QA Automation Engineer / Junior QA Tester / QA Analys

Software Engineer + SDM Marriage?

I am a software engineer and my parents received a call from a girls family. Both our native places are the same. We have grown up with same set of values. Everything looks damn perfect except for 1 thing. She is a SDM in same state. This is a good point for me as it shows her hardworking nature by cracking a tough exams. Even I am looking for someone who has been really hard working at some point in there life. But thus public sector job has its cons as well, which is transfers and postings to different places within same state. We are now talking since past week. She says she will try getting her transfer done to my place after marriage and that it is possible as well. She gives me example of her colleagues where private and public sector combination worked out. I also feel convinced many times but some days I feel like I will be restricting my job opportunities in other places. My place of work gets automatically constraint to my current one. Although it is closer to my hometown and eventually I plan to settle there. But always in my life I have kept my options open for place and company I work at. Being an SDM has its attraction I agree but it is this aspects which is playing a negative role for me. In my family everyone is a private sector employee and those who were in public sector have shifted to private as well. For her everyone in her family is government job holder. Please suggest what should I do as our parents would need some answer from me. She will have same setup with any other person so she doesn't have much to ask me, it is me who asks about our future setup is going to workout.

The reliability of the Software sector as a long term career option.

We have all heard about how Claude Opus 4.6 model now aces majority of frontend work and is making huge strides in backend. We have also heard of the current limited ability of it to handle complex tasks i.e architect or orchestrate stuff. We have been proven wrong again and again over a mere 3 years duration where gpt 3.5 was unable to do anything without very heavy guidance (we laughed saying the goalpost is xyz) to today where it gets 70%-80% of the job done(and now we're moving the goalpost). And it goes to say that given 10 years it might be able to bridge it to 95% or more, please don't quote me as I'm just a 3yoe noob. I understand the arguments about scaling laws, compute costs, and real-world implementation, but investor greed will ultimately bulldoze those hurdles. I want to hear from all the experienced folks, the industry leaders on what's the future of software engineers in India look like? Will we be phased out / become cheap as dirt in the upcoming decade? Is this a classic "Who Moved My Cheese?" phenomenon? Should we still strive to become the best software engineer in hopes of getting the best pay? How are you guys planning for future? What field is emerging now which is the best replacement for software? ML Engineer?

Let's talk life!

Let’s strip away the corporate jargon and the 'future of tech' talk. How is everyone actually doing? What’s the best part of your life right now that has nothing to do with work?