There are far more new opportunities after AI than before AI. Try to find the positive perspective.

Can you name some of these opportunities? I see people in this thread talking about using agents to manage their budgets, buy fancy cars and houses, contract work on their home. I think a lot of people feel like AI will permanently forclose any avenue they would have had to achieving that level of wealth, so there's a bitter irony

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claude-ai 3 hours ago | parent [-]

A good software developer / engineer knows how systems interlink.

AI supercharges that. If you trust the agent's results, you can focus on far higher-level aspects. You can deliver software that was in theory in reach for you, but not in practice, else you hired 30-50 developers doing the actual work for you.

This is different from a PO / PM perspective. They manage people that know their business. You manage agents that just implement code. That'll stay true for at least a few years, I'd say.

In fact, I'm quite sure that engineering-minded people will survive AI the longest. I was of the opposite opinion a few months ago.

	▲	3dd3ee 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Theres plenty of people in construction who literally get paid to stand and watch. And theyre very well paid. The same will happen to software - it'll get boring but you'll be paid to do.. not all that much. Yeah for many that 'problem solving' thing w.r.t code will go. But there's other things they'll spend their time thinking about. Also these personal assistants will crash and burn. Something else will come in the future. These chat bots are not it. Technology keeps evolving - if you get stuck on the chat paradigm... its over for you.