Re:Being an Engineer in 2026
by cadamsdotcom on Monday November 09, 2026 @04:54PM
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AI is NOT coming for your job - it's coming for the roles within your job that can be done by AI.
It's happened before and it'll happen again. Some examples from the 20th century...
Big companies used to have printing departments to which you'd send a print job, walk over and pick it up, nicely stapled. Now the printer sits there 24/7 awaiting your print job. You have to staple it yourself though.
Big companies used to have secretaries & clerical staff who'd type up your letter and send it off for you. Now we have keyboards and email. You have to send the letter yourself though.
Big companies used to have "code typists" who typed out huge amounts of code. Now they have agent managers doing the typing. Getting good output is a challenge, but asking for the output you need is so much better than RSI from typing and so much more effective than debugging based only on one's puny human knowledge, that we're suffering through. So you have to assure the quality of the work yourself.
It's strange to see people take to their blogs and loudly declare themselves unemployable. I doubt anyone'd hire this author and that'll make their prophecy come true - for them.
It's happened before and it'll happen again. Some examples from the 20th century...
Big companies used to have printing departments to which you'd send a print job, walk over and pick it up, nicely stapled. Now the printer sits there 24/7 awaiting your print job. You have to staple it yourself though.
Big companies used to have secretaries & clerical staff who'd type up your letter and send it off for you. Now we have keyboards and email. You have to send the letter yourself though.
Big companies used to have "code typists" who typed out huge amounts of code. Now they have agent managers doing the typing. Getting good output is a challenge, but asking for the output you need is so much better than RSI from typing and so much more effective than debugging based only on one's puny human knowledge, that we're suffering through. So you have to assure the quality of the work yourself.
It's strange to see people take to their blogs and loudly declare themselves unemployable. I doubt anyone'd hire this author and that'll make their prophecy come true - for them.