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I think we’ll see a lot more software. Lots of non tech people will increasingly have the ability to create custom software tools and prototypes. They’ll share and remix these. Some of them will be fully productized, at which point professional software engineers will be called in to help untangle the LLM spaghetti and create proper applications. So I think there will be more software work in consultancy.

I think we’ll see advancements in robotics and more hires there.

And I think there will be more jobs around the LLM ecosystem — progress on foundational models, inference optimizations, on prem migrations, networks of agents, AI more deeply integrated with existing sw.

Overall I think there will be more jobs in observability, security, and infrastructure.

I agree there will be fewer junior positions. I’ve written about some of these ideas before including a deskilling for new practitioners https://matthewbilyeu.com/blog/2025-03-08/ai