Comment by austin-cheney

First of all AI might take most of the coding jobs in 2 years where those jobs are filled with people who write copy/paste framework type unoriginal code. AI is already writing better code in those areas. AI will not however write new original applications though.

That is kind of scary to think about because most of the web apps will be written by bots, and probably really shitty. Web apps have always been a race to the bottom but now it will be a sprint. The upside though, is that those of us capable of writing web apps without boilerplate bullshit might once again be employable. I guess it just depends on whether businesses are willing to pay for applications up front or would rather buy commodities and pay down the road on maintenance, fees, fines, lawsuits, and such.

In the mean time my back up plans are as follows:

1. Retain my current job writing transmission/data APIs for large enterprises.

2. Military. I can at any time switch my part time job to a full time job.

3. Analytics. AI might at some point take half of analytics but the second half will just become an echo chamber if taken by bots.