| >Should I worry? Do you think that some form of AI will be able to do the job of an average programmer
> any time soon? Yes. > If yes what is your estimate? 5 to 10 years will see a noticeable decrease in the number of programming jobs as we know them today. > And how would you try to AI-proof your career Historically tech changes end up leaving a small rump of niche based practitioners, e.g. Blacksmiths servicing riding stables and racing yards, while the majority either exit the industry or take up the skillsets for the new technology. To future proof against AI, it's either be about finding the niche in a shrinking market or changing skillsets. In terms of those skillsets. Without Artifical General Intelligence there is going to be a need for someone to translate human requirements into something that the "machine" - however sophisticated - understands _and_ verify the results afterwards. That sounds very much like some form of Behaviour Driven Development. As to niches; there are a lot of complex, ill-defined but essential Cobol, Perl, PHP and Python systems floating around. Verifying a new translations is going to be expensive. QED; specialists keeping those existing systems ticking along is likely to be a thing long enough to make a career from. |