Comment by Animats

For a brief moment in history, it was cool to be a nerd. That era is over. The era of the nerds began when the IBM PC went mainstream in the 1980s. It peaked in the dot-com era, when, for the first time, large numbers of nerds got rich. That continued through the FAANG era. Now it ends.

There will still be some nerd jobs. Some. Fewer over time. The future is not you telling an LLM what to do. That was the brief "prompt engineering" era. It's an system of LLMs and agents telling each other what to do. Most likely with a bro in charge.

Get used to sand kicked in your face. Or, to quote Orwell, "If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever".

Ask someone who used to have a good union job what life is like now.