There really are no other use cases for generative AI than software flows. The irony of all this is software engineers automated their own workflows and made themselves replaceable. One think I am convinced of is that software engineering salaries will fall and we have seen the peak salaries for this industry, they will only fall going forward. Sure there will be a few key senior folks that continue to make a lot, but the software salaries itself will go through a k split just like out economy.
ryandrake|1 month ago
"Software Engineers" isn't a single group, here. Some software engineers (making millions of dollars at top AI companies) are automating other software engineers' workflows and making those software engineers replaceable. The people who are going to be mostly negatively affected by these changes are not the people setting out to build them.
KptMarchewa|1 month ago
Do you really think we should be like ancient egyptian scribes and gatekeep the knowledge and skills purely for our sake?
I don't think there has been other field that is this open with trade secrets. I know a dentist who openly claims they should be paid for training dental interns (idk what the US terminology is) despite them being productive, simply because they will earn a lot of money in the future. I did not want and do not want software engineering to become that.