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Ask HN: Is Engineering Doomed?

3 points Rugu16 | 2 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.404s | source

My question is for Sr. SEs of the industries and veterans. Did you ever feel in your career that your job and field it self will be gone in few years. Looking at history I can see internet era was a big one when lots of people thought all their windows and console programming knowledge is gone, next was apps and iphone when people thought all their knowledge of web programming is gone and now with AI i am seeing reports all the time that machines will make programming obsolete. How can one keep motivation to do anything at this point? How can you compete with creating any product when it can just be replicated by AI in a day?
1. beardyw ◴[22 Oct 24 18:23 UTC] No.41917153[source]▶
> lots of people thought all their windows and console programming knowledge is gone, next was apps and iphone when people thought all their knowledge of web programming is gone

Those were gentle transitions. Probably the biggest was from mainframe to PC. I was in a team of designers in the early 90s and found I was the only one who could think in terms of user interaction instead of a basically linear flow. I had worked on getting to grips with it.

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2. Rugu16 ◴[22 Oct 24 19:14 UTC] No.41917643[source]▶
Right , gradual changes are great and you can look fe to them like from windows to web platforms however AI is changing daily.