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To be replaced by AI is a choice

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Re: To be replaced by AI is a choice

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Post by laughing_man »

>When I look back at my career path, I remember how I actively steered myself to be at the most demanded role within boundaries of my interest. Each job change, voluntary or not, was a step up.

Yes, but here's the problem: Those steps behind you are being destroyed. It's not the senior engineers who are getting replaced; it's the people fresh out of college looking for their first job. And as AI gets better each step above that first job will disappear.

You'll be fine. Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone. But when you look around you're not going to see any young people.

Re: To be replaced by AI is a choice

#4

Post by scotty79 »

laughing_man wrote: post #3

>When I look back at my career path, I remember how I actively steered myself to be at the most demanded role within boundaries of my interest. Each job change, voluntary or not, was a step up. Yes, but here's the problem: Those steps behind you are being destroyed. It's not the senior engineers who are getting replaced; it's the people fresh out of college looking for their first job. And as AI gets better each step…

> Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone

Given the pace of AI development I don't think that's guaranteed. The game is to stay on top of the AI even if it means expanding your interests from programming to mostly product management.

Re: To be replaced by AI is a choice

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Post by johanvts »

Is this satire, because it reads like satire. If most dev work is replaced, and I think its a big if by now, clearly thousands will be out if a job, they cant all will themselfs into a senior management position. Besides, it would probably be easier to replace the managers with AI.

Re: To be replaced by AI is a choice

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Post by NitpickLawyer »

scotty79 wrote: post #4
laughing_man wrote: post #3

>When I look back at my career path, I remember how I actively steered myself to be at the most demanded role within boundaries of my interest. Each job change, voluntary or not, was a step up. Yes, but here's the problem: Those steps behind you are being destroyed. It's not the senior engineers who are getting replaced; it's the people fresh out of college looking for their first job. And as AI gets better each step…

> Your job won't get replaced until after you're gone Given the pace of AI development I don't think that's guaranteed. The game is to stay on top of the AI even if it means expanding your interests from programming to mostly product management.

> I don't think that's guaranteed.

Right? The whole rhetoric around "it's just the juniors" is the most "4. bargaining <- you are here" thing that keeps getting posted all over the place. I don't get it. How can you look at the progress in the past 3 years (in a month now) since chatgpt was first released and say "oh, it's definitely just the juniors, all seniors are safe"???

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