[florianherrengt]

We're not taking 6 months off. We take a conservative approach. We keep doing our job and get better at it (with the help of AI too). The vibe coders aren't leaving us in the dust. They're just getting a short-term loan.

If it does happen and AI becomes good enough to replace a competent developer, vibe coders might still have a job after the dust settles. But it will be minimum wage work and the profession of software engineering as we know it is dead.

I guess this argument falls apart if you are already on (or close to) minimum wage.

[fragmede]

If software engineering as we know it is hypothetically dead, shouldn't I prefer a minimum wage job over not having one?

[florianherrengt]

Minimum wage jobs pay low wages because a large number of people can do them. This means that if you work a minimum wage job, you're not just competing with others in your field. You're competing with anyone willing to work for minimum wage. It also works the other way around. If your job used to pay well but now only offers minimum wage, you could just as easily switch to any other minimum wage job.