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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by oblio on Monday May 11, 2026 @12:22PM (#48097084)
>> I understand things and then apply my ability to formulate solutions

> The AI is coming for that too.

In that case all [1] non manual work is doomed, until robotics has an LLM moment.

[1] With the exception of all fields protected by politics or nepotism.

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by rootusrootus on Monday May 11, 2026 @02:48PM (#48099064)
> all non manual work is doomed

All work in general. Knowledge workers can still do manual work, and will compete to do so when there is no option to continue what they do today.

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