Comment by MichaelRo
5 days ago
>> How long does it take to form an impression of a new job?
>> Zero. You should give it 0 time. You already know, and you’ve known for a long time;
Oh boy, how developers are clinging to the illusion this is still 2021.
How long till they interiorize that they are now immigrants crowding at a day laborer site, hoping some farmer with a truck will pick 10-20 of them for a round of picking strawberries.
So when you're penniless with no perspectives and the countryman picks you out of a crowd of hundreds hungry and desperate, you arrive at the strawberry farm and realize instantly: nah, this is not for me!
You forget there is a distinction between a plumber and an architect. The plumbers might get streamlined and need to compete, but if you design the whole house, do all the work yourself or know how to manage the contractors you will be totally fine.
I don't want to correct you on your stance, your pov may vary, but i haven't noticed any downsizing in orders and i don't want fearmongering happening here for youngsters.
If you design a clean product and maintain it you will be totally fine - some social skills and experience are ofc what you learn along the way.
There is no data backing up the ever repeating horror stories of mass-layoffs or people not getting hired because some magic AI now does all the job and if you learn the matter you can understand how to leverage these tools and why they will not make you "penniless and desperate" anytime soon.
For me as freelancer what actually was replaced was the farmer - i can have bookkeeping now, marketing and even legal assistance from AI, but i cannot have it do anything over a simple morphism or terminal object without it carrying technical debt 10x what you get when you just code down some manager-wanted functionality (and you may not want to work in places that operate on these hierarchies anyway)
https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/05/19/can-ai-take-you...
You can keep your fear-first stance here no problem, but it's either misunderstanding of what AI can do or what software engineering is about.