[bubbleRefuge]

no I think more engineers. especially those who can be a jack-of-all-trades. if a software project that takes normally 1 year of customer development can be done in 2 months, then that project is affordable to a wide array of business who would could never fund that kind of project before.

[the_af]

I can see more projects being deployed by smaller businesses, that would otherwise not be able to.

But how will this translate to engineering jobs? Maybe there will be AI tools to automate most of the stuff a small business needs done. "Ah," you may say, "I will build those tools!". Ok. Maybe. How many engineers do you need for that? Will the current engineering job market shrink or expand, and how many non-trash, well paid jobs will there be?

I'm not saying I know for sure how it'll go, but I'm concerned.

[dwaltrip]

Just had a thought, perhaps software engineers will become more like car mechanics.

[bubbleRefuge]

would be similar to solution engineers today. you build solutions using ai. think about all the moving parts to building a complex business app. user experience, data storage, business logic, reporting, etc. etc. the engineer can orchestrate the ai to build the solution and validate its correctness.