Comment by dhosek

From what I’ve seen of what AI can do for coding, the part of software engineering that I like is going to be automated out of existence, much like the ability to do serious calculations by hand got automated out of existence with the development of computing. Writing code by hand will be as marketable as factoring 5-digit numbers in your head.¹

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1. I enjoy doing both, but I doubt that anyone will pay me what I’ve been paid in the past for this five years from now.