> After a few conversations with seniors, several of them feel jaded and are looking for an exit from this industry altogether.
Why? This is the best time to be in this industry.
Never been a better time to join.
Why? This is the best time to be in this industry.
Never been a better time to join.
I suppose that I agree to a certain extent - I feel less exhausted at the end of each day, I think, because a lot of the tedium of dealing with boilerplate and implementation details can be smoothed away with AI. I do enjoy my current position more than I have ever before.
But I don't know if I'm optimistic about the future. I think software engineers are still essential, or at least that the skill of software engineering is still essential, but I don't know if the market will have fully internalized that knowledge soon enough.
What do you think?
Ignore both the AI boosters and the doomers on either extreme side of this as they are both wrong and have incentives to hype at investors.
So to answer your question:
> Do you feel optimistic about employment in the future?
Of course.
Employment will change, but to separate yourself is to know what needs to be built rather than just building for the sake of building because you can with AI.
This exactly. I am neither a boomer nor a doomer. It has helped a lot both at work and in accelerating my personal projects. But now that the C-suite and middle management has jumped on the agentic bandwagon, I'm unsure where this will go and what casualties ensue. At the very least, in the short term there's going to be a lot of "Now that we have agents, this project should be achievable in half the time".