I have as much interest in the art of programming as in building products, and becoming some sort of AI whisperer sounds tremendously tedious to me. I opted out of the managerial track for the same reason. Fortunately, I have enough money saved that I can probably just work on independent projects for the rest of my career, and I’m sure they’ll attract customers whether or not they were built using AI.
With that said, looking back on my FAANG career in OS framework development, I’m not sure how much of my work could have actually been augmented by AI. For the most part, I was designing and building brand new systems, not gluing existing parts together. There would not be a lot of precedent in the training data.
With that said, looking back on my FAANG career in OS framework development, I’m not sure how much of my work could have actually been augmented by AI. For the most part, I was designing and building brand new systems, not gluing existing parts together. There would not be a lot of precedent in the training data.