[CM30]

To a degree it feels like they are already. The increasing number of engineers looking for work means that companies don't have to offer as much to get good candidates, and it seems like salaries in many advertised jobs are going down because of it.

I definitely see AI causing a hit too, since unfortunately, a lot of people's needs when it comes to tech are fairly limited. Yeah, it can't compete with a good programmer in terms of quality or efficient system design, but many people and companies don't need that. They just need something that does what they need it to, quality be damned. So a lot of companies feel like they'll either offer less (since some guy playing around with prompts is good enough to do what they want) or not hire programmers at all.

[GaryNumanVevo]

AI (as of present) is only going to affect code monkeys. As a senior staff, most of my job is writing technical documents, and directing other engineers, and prototyping / fixing deep bugs. ChatGPT helps with prototyping a bit, but is largely useless for fixing bugs in large distributed systems.