I'm a software developer with about 12 YEO, so far I haven't had a problem finding work and for the foreseeable future I don't see Claude taking my job just yet, but every month AI models get better, so I fear this profession will disappear in 5 or 10 years from now, 5 years ago when Copilot was just a fancy autocomplete tool I couldn't even dream of how capable LLMs could get. Thus, I'm not sure if I should start planning my exit plan and become a farmer or something before it's too late.

So, what do you think? Are you preparing for the post-developer world, or do you think this is just a bump in the road?

Automation has been "taking our job" now for over 400 years, the cool thing about programmers is they produce automations and thanks to the Jevons Paradox, we are guaranteed to have inifite work as long as we are willing to adapt to the new tools.

No, arguably, software engineers are in more demand than ever. I predict that in 2027, more software engineers will be employed than in 2026.

I'm seeing many small companies who are hiring the first software engineer. In the past, one software engineer could build next to nothing in a year. Nowadays, one software engineer can build a lot in a matter of weeks.

the very latest round of models is not as much better as the prior version bump, at least in daily usage, benchmarks are meh, new results from being relentless spaghetti throwing machines (like blackbox ports) do not wow me. You can see this in how Fable 5.1 received less fanfare and the increase in open model usage (not just cost, but they are nearly as good as frontier and more than good enough for 90%+ tasks)

I have this hunch that things are starting to level off, curious to see the next batch and how it fares.

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