Comment by beernet
21 hours ago
Call it AI, ML, Data Mining, it does not matter. Truth is these tools have been disrupting the SWE market and will continue to do so. People working with it will simply be more effective. Until even them are obsolete. Don't hate the player, hate the game.
This is becoming even more of a consensus now as in it feels like the tech is somewhat already there, or just about to come out.
As a software professional what makes it more interesting is that the "trick" (reasoning RL in models) that unlocked disruption of the software industry isn't really translating to other knowledge work professions. The disruption of AI is uneven. I'm not seeing in my circles other engineers (e.g. EE's, Construction/Civil, etc), lawyers, finance professionals, anything else get disrupted as significantly as software development.
The respect of the profession has significantly gone down as well. From "wow you do that! that's pretty cool..." to "even my X standard job has a future; what are you planning to do instead?" within a 3 year period. I'm not even in SV, NY or any major tech hubs.