So, me and my good friend were casually discussing how crazy the job market is and how we are unable to get into a good job, especially when she has over 3YoE and is really good at frontend web development.
She then casually asked me "Should we be really trying this hard to get into a job that we like, as I feel that AI will take over a big part of the IT workforce in the next 5 years?"
Though we did have a friendly argument, I strongly believe that it still needs more time than that bcz IT jobs, especially we developers, are not just limited to coding. And given the fact that OpenAI is learning off of GitHub repos, which are basically code examples are averagely written code, not well written proficient ones.
But, in General, what do you think about AI and how it is gradually dominating the IT sector ?
Define good job. Then I'll add my points.
The usual stuff :
Apart from the 8-9 hours, the rest of the points are more of a "state of mind" of the person.
AI will not take your job, people using AI will.
Many of today's jobs will certainly become redundant, but many new ones will be created. The important thing is how fast can ee adapt to change. I have seen many disruptive technologies in my 25 years long career and one trend that I have seen is that the time available to adapt and reskill is getting shorter. The only way out is continuous learning, each week for a few hours at least. It might not be easy with the demands of modern life, but it must be done.
The number of jobs available to do in the next 2-3 decades are going to take a nose dive. We aren't prepared for it. Driving in all its forms will not require people. That's like 30% of the world's workforce. Stuff like ordering fast food, making it and deliveries will also become automated.
As for developers, the data set used to train to code will become better leading to better coding. All the raw data is there, it just needs to be cherry picked. So requirements for devs for development and support will take a nose dive.
Things that will remain are physical work like repairing cars, plumbers, electrician, server management and maintenance (system admin).
I have seen LLM models getting better day by day and seem to replace a lot of tedious roles that interns would do. How will this change the job market over time? Should people start learning coding to stay relevant in today's times? How ...
I know this is quite a sensitive topic but I'd rather face the truth.
A couple of months ago, I was less worried, but now looking at the pace of development in IDEs and tools to help with software development, coding has been made much ...
