Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by grugagag on Monday December 16, 2024 @09:13PM
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Yes, software engineering is different in many areas but today a lot of it is CRUD and plumbing. While SW engineering will not die it will certainly transform a lot, quite possibly there will be fewer generalists than today and more specialized branches will pop out - or maybe being a generalist will require one to be familiar many new areas. Likely the code we write today will go the same way writing assembly code went and sure, it will not completely disappear but...
Re:Ask HN: SWEs how do you future-proof your career in light...
by skydhash on Monday December 16, 2024 @11:49PM
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> software engineering is different in many areas but today a lot of it is CRUD and plumbing
Which you can do away in a few days with frameworks and code reuse. The rest of the time is mostly spent on understanding the domain, writing custom components, and fixing bugs.
Trading is about doing very specific math in a very specific scenario with known expectations.
Software engineering is anything but like that.