I certainly feel uneasy. To whatever extent “AI” fulfills its promise of enabling regular people to get computers to do exactly what needs doing, that’s the extent that the “priest class” like me who knows how to decide what’s feasible and design a good system to do it, will be made redundant. I guess I hope it moves slowly enough that I can get enough years in on easy mode (this current stage where technical people can easily 5-10x their previous output by leveraging the AI tools ourselves).
But if the advancement moves too slowly, we will have some serious pipeline problems filling senior engineer positions, caused by the destruction that AI (combined with the end of ZIRP) has caused to job prospects for entry level software engineers.
But if the advancement moves too slowly, we will have some serious pipeline problems filling senior engineer positions, caused by the destruction that AI (combined with the end of ZIRP) has caused to job prospects for entry level software engineers.