Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light of LLMs?

The more I speak with fellow engineers, the more I hear that some of them are either using AI to help them code, or feed entire projects to AI and let the AI code, while they do code review and adjustments.

I didn't want to believe in it, but I think it's here. And even arguments like "feeding proprietary code" will be eventually solved by companies hosting their own isolated LLMs as they become better and hardware becomes more available.

My prediction is that junior to mid level software engineering will disappear mostly, while senior engineers will transition to be more of a guiding hand to LLMs output, until eventually LLMs will become so good, that senior people won't be needed any more.

So, fellow software engineers, how do you future-proof your career in light of, the inevitable, LLM take over?

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I want to clarify something, because there seems to be slight misunderstanding.

A lot of people have been talking about SWE being not only about code, and I agree with that. But it's also easier to sell this idea to a young person who is just starting in this career. And while I want this Ask HN to be helpful to young/fresh engineers as well, I'm more interested in getting help for myself, and many others who are in a similar position.

I have almost two decades of SWE experience. But despite that, I seem to have missed the party where they told us that "coding is not a means to an end", and realized it in the past few years. I bet there are people out there who are in a similar situations. How can we future-proof our career?

As it is I spend 95% of my time working out what needs to be done with all of the stakeholders and 5% of my time writing code. So the impact of AI on that is negligible.

A steeper learning curve in a professional field generally translates into higher earnings. The longer you have to be trained to be helpful, the more a job generally earns.

I am already trained.

Most importantly it will be easier to have your code comment, class etc. translated into English.

i.e I used to work in country where the native language is not related to english (i.e not Spanish, German, French etc.) and it was incredibly hard for student and developers to name things in English and instead it was more natural to name things in their language.

So even a LLM that take the code and "translate it" (that before no translation tool was able to do) is opening a huge chunk of developers to the world.