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Ask HN: Is Engineering Doomed?

3 points Rugu16 | 3 comments | 22 Oct 24 17:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.538s | 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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shortrounddev2 ◴[22 Oct 24 17:25 UTC] No.41916508[source]▶
I am not afraid of being replaced by AI, at all
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1. Rugu16 ◴[22 Oct 24 19:11 UTC] No.41917614[source]▶
That means you are ok financially to retire
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2. shortrounddev2 ◴[23 Oct 24 12:50 UTC] No.41924542[source]▶
No, my thinking is that if software engineers are replaced by AI, then any job can be replaced by AI and the global economy will catastrophically collapse. I'm not afraid of being replaced because not only can I do nothing about it, but i will be utterly powerless to find any kind of income afterwords also. AI will have destroyed the world without any violence and then we'll all be in the same boat
3. JohnFen ◴[23 Oct 24 15:25 UTC] No.41926012[source]▶
I'm not afraid of it either, but that has nothing to do with how financially secure I am. It has more to do with me not seeing a path to AI replacing engineers in any significant way.