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by rrgok 481 days ago
What should I focus on from now on? If I want to change career path, what will pay me as good as a Software Engineer given that I’m 34 years old? Let’s I can take a break of 4 years to take another degree, what would be the wisest choice?

I’m at lost honestly. If not 2025, it would 2030 or 2040. I fucking love software engineering.
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androiddrew 481 days ago
Brother I am 39 and I am there with you. Increasingly the interview process in software has just become LeetCode standard to gate people. Did I personally build a tool that processed 120M in sales annually, sure. Can you balance a BST? No? Then fuck off.

Personally, I see robotics as something worth moving towards. It’s the intersection of software, mechanics, electronics, and math.

Maybe it’s just time to move into management…

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jdlshore 481 days ago
Ignore the hype. Every advancement in programming technology has been followed by an expansion in the need for programmers. This too shall pass.
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falcor84 481 days ago
Every advancement in technology had for a long while been followed by an expansion in manufacturing roles, until it no longer did.
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fullshark 481 days ago
Just keep getting better, the risk is there's going to be many more software engineers, using AI tools, which is going to lower wages more so than AI will make all software engineers obsolete.

This nonsense is about recalibrating the SWE labor market and garnering hype for tech. The primary product the technology industry creates is company equities, and their primary customer is anxious CEOs/hedge/pension funds.

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