[Hot Take] AI will make SWEs redundant, PMs and Marketers will become the most important job

1. They are the most overpaid people in India. 2. They have no work life balance and they don't even know what it means. 3. They think they are the best at everything, but they can't do anything right. 4. They are always complaining about their job and how much they hate it. 5. They are never satisfied with their salary or benefits package. 6. They are always looking for new jobs because they think they deserve better than what they currently have. Would you like to add anything else here?

What is your hot take?

Because AI will do it better and faster than you sooner or later. Looking at you consultants 👀 https://x.com/lennysan/status/1810686158201901488?t=2o5TlDoFMnuuAu2WmTwlZQ&s=19

Meet Devin from Cognition Labs. Read more here: https://www.cognition-labs.com/blog To the cynics, while this is a demo and there might be a lot more work to be done to get this product to "employee-grade", the fact that this has even started happening now... is crazy! At this rate of progress, I wouldn't bet against a fundamental disruption to SWE as we today know it, within the next 5 years. That's food for thought for those in the profession: either you are in the top 20% or you are replaceable by AI agents like Devin.

Young SWE start with double digit salaries, while someone in Non tech will need 5-10 years to reach that level Even the business roles, the direct revenue generating roles don't pay good traditionally Funny how techies think everyone gets paid similar A lot of it changed with startups trying to acquire talent, but not sustainable Because the market simply doesn’t pay How do non tech compete with this skewed demand-supply chain?

Incoming!. Every FAANG PM is thinking about and working on integrating Gen AI into their features. This includes PMs and engineers who oversee 1-2 features in the entire product. And will oversell their part in it. For promotions to job switches these guy have to shout ‘I used a lot of Gen AI to change the world’ And then to sell it on LinkedIn for getting likes. The PMs will sound like they were just as visionary as Sam Altman who made GPT in the first place. And the engineers will sound like they coded GPT and will invent AGI themselves while they just integrate 2 APIs. You’ve been warned.

Had a chat with a senior PM today on the need of the PM function with Ai getting smarter. Engineers build, designers design, data people analyse things, and a business person has the mind to make money by leveraging the team. When a point arrives where Ai does all the IC part of Engineering, Design and Data, there won't be a requirement of PM function at all! Creativity, Empathy, Product thinking, all these skills will be owned by Engineers, Designers, Data and Business leaders. These skills like "product sense" are something that won't hold the fort much longer because eventually all good engineers, designers and data people will have to develop the customer empathy and product sense to prompt the Ai and do their individual job better. IMHO it is a high time that all PMs work to strengthen at least one hard skill to keep themselves employable. While I am writing this post, unfortunately I am also the one who is seeking a PM role right now. Any suggestions or thoughts you have on which hard skill to master and how to remain employable?

What future do you see of front end developers in next 5 years ? silly and hypothetical question ,yes i know.