Some 42% of the more than 13,000 respondents picked the response “Yes?
U guys are pretty much fucked.”
(It’s still hiring salespeople for AI-powered products.
)Stripeintends to cut some engineers while also growing its overall head count this year.
All of this raises the question of what junior engineers will take on if some basic tasks become automated.
Someproduct managershave speculated that AI will increasingly take on some technical coding tasks and circumvent their need for engineers.
Overall,job postingsfor software engineers on Indeed are at a five-year low.
Are engineers really coding themselves into obsolescence?
As it is now, AI isn’t an original thinker.
“I still don’t think that it is something that can fully replace a good developer.”
Coding boot camps became common in the 2010s as the demand for engineers outpaced the supply.
But CompTIA says the reason for the fall wasn’t clear.
But there’s a widening divide within software engineering regarding experience level.
The experienced engineers I talked to seemed confident that AI wouldn’t come for the jobs anytime soon.
“Your best companies and best software engineers are almost always leveraging those tools.”
He began using chatbots at work in 2022.
“I saw that and thought I should probably give this a shot.”
While more-experienced engineers are optimistic about AI, young engineers have more reason to worry.
Petros says he tried ChatGPT but found that the code could be clunky.
If something in that code breaks, humans may not know how to fix it.
People have long panicked that technology will take their livelihood.
Amanda Hooveris a senior correspondent at Business Insider covering the tech industry.
She writes about the biggest tech companies and trends.
