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0 pointsCamperBob21mo ago0 comments

Doing so will effectively force a (potentially unwanted) career change for many people and will lead to the end of software engineering (and software as a career), assuming AI continues to improve.

If you expected things to stay the same forever, maybe software engineering wasn't the right career move for you. Even though it looked safe enough, given that we've spent 50 years writing the same old code the same old way, that was never guaranteed.

I for one am glad to see something genuinely new come along. The last dozen or so "paradigm shifts" turned out to be disappointing variations on the same old paradigm. Not this one, though.

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nunez1mo ago

I think you missed the part where I outlined how software engineering will become a business analyst spec-writing kind of job, a job I did and know that I dislike...

But, hey! Different strokes for different folks. This might be for you, and that's cool! I'm allowed to be sad about it, though.

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nunez1mo ago

I think you missed the part where I outlined how software engineering will become a business analyst spec-writing kind of job, a job I did and know that I dislike...

But, hey! Different strokes for different folks. This might be for you, and that's cool! I'm allowed to be sad about it, though.

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