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Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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According to the development trend of AI, the demand for software engineering may decrease, but it will not disappear. In any case, top engineers are always in demand. The demand for software engineers in ordinary positions will not be as great as it is now

Yes, I agree, but for a new grad student. May it be hard for him to find a job in this market to learn and become a top engineer?

Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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I think that's all correct what they're saying. It's not contradictory - writing code has become a commodity to a certain extent. But someone's still responsible for the production systems when it fails. AWS had a couple of big outages last year because of AI. Even with humans reviewing it, review is review. If you're not writing the code, you'll not have spent enough time thinking about edge cases. That's where the…

Yes, I agreed with your points. we can cover these two points. "But someone's still responsible for the production systems when it fails. AWS had a couple of big outages last year because of AI. Even with humans reviewing it, review is review. If you're not writing the code, you'll not have spent enough time thinking about edge cases.". This is true and we cover software quality in the age of AI ( https://youtu.be/oO…

Love it! Well done on the podcast!

Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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post #4

According to the development trend of AI, the demand for software engineering may decrease, but it will not disappear. In any case, top engineers are always in demand. The demand for software engineers in ordinary positions will not be as great as it is now

demand for software will increase, but it will become a lower skill job

Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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yes it is but u have to be the top 5% developer, u have to learn and update everyday, u should have the problem solving ability along with product-business mindset. yes AI will affect to software engineering but the right one will always survives.

Yes, but could you give us more details on how to become a top 5% developer?

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Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, I agreed with your points. we can cover these two points. "But someone's still responsible for the production systems when it fails. AWS had a couple of big outages last year because of AI. Even with humans reviewing it, review is review. If you're not writing the code, you'll not have spent enough time thinking about edge cases.". This is true and we cover software quality in the age of AI ( https://youtu.be/oO…

Love it! Well done on the podcast!

Thank you, man!

Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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I am afraid the software engineering industry is increasingly becoming like the music industry, which was killed by being able to get any song for free. Open source, free, fremium apps, lower threshold of entry due to AI, all of that is killing the market. Soon, you will not be able to make any money out of it unless you're a big player.

I don't think the question is \is software engineering dead?\" so much as \"what kind of first job still compounds?\" For new students

Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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I am afraid the software engineering industry is increasingly becoming like the music industry, which was killed by being able to get any song for free. Open source, free, fremium apps, lower threshold of entry due to AI, all of that is killing the market. Soon, you will not be able to make any money out of it unless you're a big player.

Unfortunately, yes. Also, talking about open source. With the AI, I saw a couple of posts about people trying to rebuild an open-source project in a different programming language and change the license. Which kind hurts the original open source project

OSS has always been vulnerable to this. AI is accelerating, but changing the license doesn't guarantee adoption. It's not just because someone forked a project and changed license that suddenly everyone will start using that tool/library..

And the comparison to the music industry is fair, but the key difference is that in Software we had a Free/OSS movement for a while, and it did not kill the industry, on the contrary, it benefited from it.

Re: Ask HN: Is software engineering still a good career choice for new students?

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According to the development trend of AI, the demand for software engineering may decrease, but it will not disappear. In any case, top engineers are always in demand. The demand for software engineers in ordinary positions will not be as great as it is now

demand for software will increase, but it will become a lower skill job

The industry is changing. Coding is becoming a commodity, which means other skills will have to be developed and mastered to meet the future demands. We will still need people to build a platform to run AI. To maintain software to do Inference, to maintain a pipeline to train AI...

The abstraction layer is being pushed higher

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