Is Tech Career coming to an end?
Lately I am seeing lot of videos like end of Tech career. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l222fIkesAY
With the AI tools like https://www.cursor.com/, How will the tech industry involve.
What are the other alternatives I have?
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Discussion
(10 comments)- 12 months agoTech Lead/Manager at Meta, Pinterest, Kosei
Looks like you're a Senior SWE already. I would worry less about an ambiguous, hypothetical future and instead make the most of the promising situation you're in. It's too hard for anyone to predict how exactly software engineering will change, and there's a good chance they're wrong.
The best thing to do is view AI as a tool, and figure out how to plug it into your workflows. Be adaptable to the large number of changes that could happen.
- 02 months agoSenior Software EngineerTaro Community
I have seen jobs like QA engineer, Dev ops disappear which was prevalent at least five years ago. End to End shipment is done to production is done by the Individual.
Even the performance testing and scaling of service is done in push of the button.
With the AI involvement, I seriously do not know the future of high paying jobs.
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2 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course HeroIs Tech Career coming to an end?
No.
AI fearmongering just gets clicks, that's why people do it. ChatGPT has been out for 2 years now, and I don't see companies replacing millions of engineers with autonomous robots running ChatGPT. The supposed "fully independent" coder AI was a sham.
In terms of how the tech industry will evolve, skills above trivial coding will become more important. That was already the case at top companies like FAANG, and now it'll spread across the industry.
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- 02 months agoSenior Software EngineerTaro Community
I have seen jobs like QA engineer, Dev ops disappear which was prevalent at least five years ago. End to End shipment is done to production is done by the Individual.
Even the performance testing and scaling of service is done in push of the button.
With the AI involvement, I seriously do not know the future of high paying jobs. - 02 months agoSoftware Engineer @ Aptos
Just wanna make sure this is not a typo. Skills above trivial coding will become more important or less important?
- 02 months agoTech Lead @ Robinhood, Meta, Course Hero
Just wanna make sure this is not a typo. Skills above trivial coding will become more important or less important?
Far, far more important.
- 02 months agoSenior Software Engineer @FocusConsulting
"I have seen jobs like QA engineer, Dev ops disappear which was prevalent at least five years ago. End to End shipment is done to production is done by the Individual. Even the performance testing and scaling of service is done in push of the button."
What stack are we talking about? A default Next.js app on Vercel? What about applications that interface with on-premises government services? There’s plenty that still needs to be done (and the deployment process isn’t AI – it’s solutions built for specific use cases, wrapped around a core cloud provider).
E2E testing can be done by recording actions from the browser (no code writing needed except for config, setup, teardown). That isn't AI, that's another solution.
The issue is that everyone is classifying everything as AI when it’s really just good old innovation and problem-solving.
- 12 months agoEng @ Taro
Coding velocity will probably start to equalize across all software engineers because of the rise of AI tools. There are critical analysis skills that are harder to replace, like weighing tradeoffs and picking the best path forward given your constraints and goals.
- 02 months agoSenior Software EngineerTaro Community
I have seen jobs like QA engineer, Dev ops disappear which was prevalent at least five years ago. End to End shipment is done to production is done by the Individual.
Even the performance testing and scaling of service is done in push of the button.
With the AI involvement, I seriously do not know the future of high paying jobs. - 22 months agoEntry-Level Software Engineer at Seed Startup
Well. To give you some hope, I was jamming Cursor AI with a bunch of questions for 20 minutes about how the opentelemetry library worked. What I really needed was a 3-line change, which I would have known had I worked with the library before.
