How does AI affect your current career / job?

[bazera]

Hey,

I'm working as a software developer (mostly web) for 8-9 years now, and for the last couple years, the industry is being reshaped in front of my eyes due to AI. At the moment, it's like, if you don't use some sort of AI agent in your workflow, you're getting behind, and you feel that each month. 

Managers push us to use AI more and more, and expect productivity gains due to it, and for the last 2-3 months, AI agents have improved to such a degree that me and most developers around me don't actually type code manually, the process has morphed into talking with an agent, or multiple agents at once, and basically orchestrating them, reviewing code, making sure they do the job correctly, and if an agent isn't able to do something, then we switch back to an old school way and do things manually.

These agents affected the industry so much that many of us have anxiety over losing our jobs in the long term. That's why now I'm switching more and more into roles and projects that require more architectural and big-picture thinking skills. If not at the current job, I try to advance those skills with my own toy projects in my free time.

So, I was wondering if any of you guys experience similar changes due to AI in your induestries. Would be interesting to hear your thoughts.

Edited yesterday at 06:10 AM by bazera

[Oppositionless]

The rise of AI led me first to despair bc I was going to school for CS (with a specialization) in web dev. But I think it ended up being a good thing because now I have to get creative. I'm gonna get a life coaching certification and build that business. My current job is building servers.

Edited 14 hours ago by Oppositionless

[Tistepiste]

I am a Data Scientist with a masters in AI

To be honest it makes my job so much easier..
These tools are really a great assistent in code building and understanding new concepts.

Before that I had to browse / ask questions on stackoverflow, read documentations, invent my own logic for very specific behaviours.

Now I can use these tools to do the heavy lifting for me.

However, one must stay on high alert, since these chatbots are fully stupid fully confidently and make you think they make sense while theyre inventing complete new physics

[bazera]

6 hours ago, Oppositionless said:

The rise of AI led me first to despair bc I was going to school for CS (with a specialization) in web dev. But I think it ended up being a good thing because now I have to get creative. I'm gonna get a life coaching certification and build that business. My current job is building servers.

@Oppositionless So you gave up on the idea of buidling a career around web dev?

[bazera]

3 hours ago, Tistepiste said:

I am a Data Scientist with a masters in AI

To be honest it makes my job so much easier..
These tools are really a great assistent in code building and understanding new concepts.

Before that I had to browse / ask questions on stackoverflow, read documentations, invent my own logic for very specific behaviours.

Now I can use these tools to do the heavy lifting for me.

However, one must stay on high alert, since these chatbots are fully stupid fully confidently and make you think they make sense while theyre inventing complete new physics

@Tistepiste Yes for sure, same for me, I have a huge productivity boost, I hated doing boilerplace stuff, and now I'm excited to build my own projects in weeks instead of months. 

And it's huge when it comes to learning and understanding. It's so much easier now. 

[Oppositionless]

44 minutes ago, bazera said:

@Oppositionless So you gave up on the idea of buidling a career around web dev?

No not quite. I still do some programming on my own, but I just am painfully aware that the junior developer positions have dried up. Also it just feels slightly dis-empowering to rely on AI, but it feels like it's impossible to keep up without it since everyone else is doing it, as at your job. But a lot of the fun of programming has gone way down for me, tbh. 

[bazera]

@Oppositionless

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But a lot of the fun of programming has gone way down for me, tbh. 

Yes same for me. It's been much more fun to code like 10 years ago then it's now. 

The job turned into reviewing code that claude models generate and sometimes debugging manually because llm can't do it. 

But it is what it is, we've to somehow adjust and fit the new standard. Gotta keep that paycheck coming.

My sister also wanted to learn coding but she lost all motivation and since there are no more junior developer jobs, I can't blame her. 

But if we don't have juniors, how are we gonna have more seniors after some years go by?