Is pivoting to ML/AI engineering the only way to save your SWE career at this point? Or is AI going to replace AI engineers too?
If by “pivoting” you mean a 6 years of 12 hour workdays for poverty wages in a PhD program at a prestigious university in the vague hope there will still be work by the time you graduate, then yes
>>109883838lmao, simply lmaobackend engineer calling LLM API - deadML engineer - dead since 2021actual AI researcher - dead by 2028
>>109883838we will reach a point of abundance that work and money won't be a thing anymore
>>109883838It's all the same shit. You will still need people who can review the code and understand wtf is going on, otherwise mass proompting will result in disaster.
>>109884896Driven by what exactly? Is an LLM going to magically create energy and resources out of thin air?
>>109885035This. It’s kinda like how after you do a calculation on a digital calculator you still have to go through and check it by hand. That’s why all these years later we still have human computers.
it's over
>>109885044No lol. The select few will own all the resources and you will rent everything from them. You wont be able to earn money but you will be given a limited monthly quota on how many grams of protein you are permitted to consume for instance.
>>109883838If SWE field is over who's gonna pay for the slop machine subs/tokens?Do you really think some higher up, who can barely attach a pdf on their email is going to prompt claude to build something?
