So we are here. AIs like claude are threatening software developer's jobs. It is promised that "just coding" will be obsolete and solved with AI. It means that if you are a software developer you might want to be afraid if you will be able to pay your bills 2 months for now. After all, just like manual workers 50 years ago, your job is on the line. However.....
Neither all factories are fully automated and a ton of people still work in factories. What the fuck just happened? We've been promised/told that industrialization will kill so many jobs! So why there are still so many people still working in assembly lines? Shouldn't we have been at a stage where being an assembly worker is pointless with automation taking over?
Well, with all due respect for OpenAI CEO and all the backers of the AI movement, I have seen it in 1st person how incredibly immature, dull and stupid AI can be.
To bottom it all up: if you are a software developer and have like 5+ years of XP under your belt you are at least 20 years safe to keep your job - if history has anything to say about it.
If you've got 20+ years of XP as a software developer you will probably be paid more in the coming years than you can spend (if you are clever about it).
And if you are, like me, one of the dinosaurs of software development, sky is the limit for what you can become in the coming years. The Nirvana just arrived. And as much as OpenIA, NVidia and others would like to see us being obsolete we are in a better shape than ever before.
Keep on learning and you'll be fine.
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