Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career

Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by Danox on Monday May 11, 2026 @03:14PM (#48099370)

It is the lament of every generation of humans to think that they are the pinnacle of everything that has come before, we are just at the start of the so-called AI era, many very smart people coming up still haven’t really got their hands on all of the material available from a hardware and software standpoint. We are still at the early stages.

I am very optimistic. I just wish I was younger to take advantage like Junior high, high school age with my current resources damn… The oldest lament in the books.

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by davenci on Monday May 11, 2026 @07:26PM (#48102133)

What makes you optimistic? Geniunly curious as I’m looking for how to take advantage of the ai disruption

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Re:Software engineering may no longer be a lifetime career by Anamon on Thursday May 14, 2026 @07:26AM (#48133905)

We're not at the early stages. The LLM hype started almost for years ago! And for the past two or three years, progress has plateaued (if not regressed) and the economics, which still have to be figured out, point to it becoming an order of magnitude more expensive at least, compared to this aggressive marketing and VC phase.

I've been told for three years that it's the early days, and everything completely changes every few months, and these are the worst the tools will ever be. Meanwhile, I see very little technical progress, zero return on investment anywhere, negative infinity profitability on the side of the providers, and a fast growing realisation among the masses on all the myriad tasks they are systemically unsuitable for.

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