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Ask HN: Is Engineering Doomed?

3 points Rugu16 | 1 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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?
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sk11001 ◴[22 Oct 24 17:43 UTC] No.41916727[source]▶
If it is, so is most other knowledge work. In which case society is so screwed in the short-to-medium term that there’s no point in worrying about it since you can’t do anything to prevent or avoid it.

It’s like worrying about nuclear war - low probability of a negative outcome completely out of your control.

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1. Rugu16 ◴[22 Oct 24 19:11 UTC] No.41917604[source]▶
That is a good way to think about it !