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If you believe the AI hype there won't be any programming jobs soon - so those that do (believe) think they need to become highly-proficient AI-wranglers to maintain employability.
I too think it's the wrong approach, but it's hard to say what hirers will be looking for in the medium to long term, and devs whom adapt to 'the new thing' faster have typically been more hirable.
Personally hoping the big players crash and burn asap because the benefits just haven't been anywhere near worth the costs across various domains.
This isn’t anything new. There have been multiple waves of “code-gen for normies”, and every time after the hype dies down there’s a heap of shitty code to fix.
There’s gonna be no shortage of customers up to their eyeballs in broken slop after the bill comes due and Anthropic has to stop subsidizing their prices. AI slop is the best thing to happen to our job security in a while. (Provided you retain your critical thinking skills.)
Fingers crossed for the crash sooner than later, because I'm tired of it all.