I think what I’m suggesting is: consider being more than just a software engineer. Become a software engineer with expertise in other fields. Or a software engineer AND a fluid simulation engineer. This might not make sense for someone who currently works at say a business SaaS company, but how much longer are those jobs going to be around?
But this is also a great time to be building your own business, in which case you may want to develop business related skills.
I had exactly this way of thinking last year and began specializing myself: github.com/glouw/ensim4
I reckon moving forward software will became an applied tool to the applied sciences. I mean, it always has been, but the barrier to entry has lowered for the easily verifiable, and that is programming, and not the problem being solved
-formal verification
-computational fluid dynamics
-control theory
-materials science
-graphics
I think what I’m suggesting is: consider being more than just a software engineer. Become a software engineer with expertise in other fields. Or a software engineer AND a fluid simulation engineer. This might not make sense for someone who currently works at say a business SaaS company, but how much longer are those jobs going to be around?
But this is also a great time to be building your own business, in which case you may want to develop business related skills.