Ask HN: Where do you see software engineering careers heading?

Mass reskilling is already happening. Certifications basically retraining people.

The issue, in large orgs, is not that the tool can do a decent job, its that a huge amount of institutional knowledge is not encoded or encodable.

Initially the thinking was people will transfer all Institutional knowledge/operations mpdel into the system, but in reality how people run ops and how they say they run ops is not the same.

Exposing the gap doesnt work because many of the things keeping the lights on, involve taking shortcuts, hiding stuff, avoiding stuff, bribing/flattering others etc Orgs allow it to an extent because it gives them an edge over competition.

Training AI to do all that is much more tricky because it changes who has power inside an org. So the thinking has turned into retrain people to use the tools better to keep doing what they are doing.

In Latin america we have a role in most of the business of the size to allow it: "the systems guy", "the it guy", "the webmaster" it's he guy capable of fixing everything and make everything work, that guy has been coding apps for it's workmates from the start, I guess he will still be doing that with bigger platforms.

From the other side, the projects handled for the pure SW roles will be massive, very complex and require some sort of domain knowledge apart from pure software engineering.