Comment by at-fates-hands

>> What that means 20-30 years from now when the seniors of today retire.

I fear that many won't retire and instead completely leave the industry which is already happening. Its anecdotal, but when I first started as a junior dev, I was working with many intermediate devs who had a few years on me.

I kept ties with a group of about two dozen devs. We all went through a lot of the same stuff. Last year I attended two local conferences. Out of the 24 or so, who were all seasoned senior devs now? Only 3 of us remained in the industry. Granted, I'm in accessibility and another moved more into a UI/UX design role but we were all that's left.

The majority of a discussion at lunch was about why they left and it was pretty universal. They were seeing AI creeping into everything they did and just walked away. The list was long of what they disliked about it and really didn't see the huge upsides that the industry was pushing. They had money, they had other opportunities they choose to pursue far and away from the tech industry.

It was pretty eye opening to say the least. We always imagined sitting around a table in our 60's recounting our experiences in tech and now we're not even into our 40's and the industry is losing amazing talent every year that IMHO cannot be replaced by an LLM prompt.

I don't have a good feeling about where this is headed.