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I'm working as if in 2-3 years the max comp I will be able to get as a senior engineer will be 150k. And it will be hard to get that. It's not that it will disappear, its that the bar to produce working software will go way down. Most knowledge and skill sets will be somewhat commoditized.

Also pretty sure this will make outsourcing easier since foreign engineers will be able to pick up technical skills easier

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> Also pretty sure this will make outsourcing easier since foreign engineers will be able to pick up technical skills easier

Most importantly it will be easier to have your code comment, class etc. translated into English.

i.e I used to work in country where the native language is not related to english (i.e not Spanish, German, French etc.) and it was incredibly hard for student and developers to name things in English and instead it was more natural to name things in their language.

So even a LLM that take the code and "translate it" (that before no translation tool was able to do) is opening a huge chunk of developers to the world.

yeah I think youre correct, I see a quick ceiling to senior software engineer. On the other hand I think a lot of junior positions are going to get removed, and for a while having the experience to be at a senior level will be rarer. So, there that.

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