alt Hacker News> Within the next 5 years, how likely do you think it is that you will have to change careers due to reasons beyond your control?
When I filled this out myself in July, I was "somewhat unlikely"
If you ask me again now, only a few months later, I'm probably leaning towards "Somewhat likely".
Insane how fast this space is moving.
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Interesting. Since GPT4 came out I strongly believed LLMs would replace human programming. By November 2025 when opus 4.5 came out I thought it was pretty established already and most people agreed with that premise.
By human programming I mean humans typing code.
if you're still thinking like that, better switch your career now
If you genuinely think thit, it's probably better you switch careers to something you're actually good at.
I moved the opposite direction. Few months back, I was absolutely sure that the days of me being a software engineer are numbered. The programming I used to love and fun was gone. But, as I got to work more with Agents, factory & the infrastructure surrounding it, I'm more optimistic about the kinds of problems we could tackle with this, that wasn't possible/cost-effective before. We've only barely scratched the surface with what AI could be leveraged in the real world.