Comment by cableshaft

I work for a consulting firm that rebranded itself as an AI solutions firm. So yeah, I'm pretty much expected to use A.I. pretty heavily to keep working here, and so I do.

So I'm guessing that experience will help me get whatever my next job is, but I also think my next job might end up being my last job in the field.

I'll either go into management, or just semi-retire and work on my own projects, or leave the field entirely and start working in the board game industry, I don't know, something.

If I switched fields I'll probably take a major pay cut though (if I go into the board game industry I'll probably be lucky to make a quarter of what I'm making right now). But paycuts might be coming anyway to the software engineering field as a whole before too long anyway.

Keeping up the motivation was already difficult before A.I., I'd already dealt with so much startup, small business, and corporate crap over the years it was starting to pile up. I might need to take a sabbatical at some point, or at least a couple of months off.

I've been working in software engineering in some form or another for a little over 20 years now.