Re:Is it too late to enter software engineering in 2024?
by pizlonator on Monday March 11, 2024 @12:44AM
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Programming is a thinking person’s job. Your brain is more powerful than ChatGPT and that will continue to be true.
What ChatGPT and other tools like it can do for you is regurgitate knowledge that would be harder to find otherwise.
But programming a great system requires heart, creativity, collaboration skills, as well as original knowledge and unique experiences.
It also requires having ideas that no AI can regurgitate based on training from other folks’ ideas that the AI devs scraped off the intertubes.
The current situation is macroeconomics, IMO. It’ll be hard to secure internships during any period of economic uncertainty, skimpflation, and higher interest rates than the prior equilibrium.
So, keep programming. Focus on the skill of getting code to work and focus on what makes you unique as a programmer. If you like programming, stick with it.
What ChatGPT and other tools like it can do for you is regurgitate knowledge that would be harder to find otherwise.
But programming a great system requires heart, creativity, collaboration skills, as well as original knowledge and unique experiences.
It also requires having ideas that no AI can regurgitate based on training from other folks’ ideas that the AI devs scraped off the intertubes.
The current situation is macroeconomics, IMO. It’ll be hard to secure internships during any period of economic uncertainty, skimpflation, and higher interest rates than the prior equilibrium.
So, keep programming. Focus on the skill of getting code to work and focus on what makes you unique as a programmer. If you like programming, stick with it.