I recently wrote my thoughts on this topic.

https://github.com/paradite/ai-replace-swe

Short answer: Leverage AI, become more productive with AI and make sure you can output more value than just AI itself. Also move up the value chain to product management, team management.

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kasey_junk 5 months ago | parent [-]

It’s a strange idea that team management is going to be more valuable if individual engineers are more productive.

I’m actually _more_ worried about team managers than line engineers when it comes to AI impact.

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paradite 5 months ago | parent | next [-]

I think someone needs to "manage" these AI engineers still, to supervise them working, and review code, PRs.

It's less about personal development, but more on performance management.

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matt_s 5 months ago | parent | prev [-]

AI can’t attend meetings and converse with humans on other teams to understand what the priorities are, what features need to be built, what issues are happening, etc.

	▲	kasey_junk 5 months ago \| parent [-]
		I was in a meeting this week where a manager stepped away for 60% of the meeting, came back, got the ai summary and didn’t lose anything…