Anxiety over developer displacement; seniority tilt supports existing workers
3 Sep 14 11:38 AM · 13d ago · 6 comments · 1 source · development 3 of 3
Commenters express anxiety about job security and career trajectory. A 42-year-old web developer reports feeling "both with new superpowers and dangerously threatened." Another warns manual coding may be obsolete by late 2027, with coders managing AI agents instead. A third notes entry-level hiring collapse doesn't reliably work for juniors, requiring prior enterprise software experience.
“I feel both with new superpowers and dangerously threatened. I feel we will need much less developpers and yet I can imagine some years where a developper will be able to handle much larger projects.”
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These lists must be hallucinating.> AI Engineer. Number one on LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise in the US two years running, number one at Robert Half. About 1,550 new US postings a week, median 176,000 dollars. This is the engineer who puts LLMs into products: RAG, agents, fine-tuning, evaluation.I'm doing all those things. The RAG work was interesting…
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> That is exactly what working with small and mid-size businesses looks like: find the process where AI pays off, build the agent or the integration, and get it to the people who will use it.This is exactly right.I’m making good side money from building and integrating “AI” with small business tools.Custom CRMs and tracking solutions so they don’t…
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What's the best way to get into any kind of frontier training or inference? Obviously OpenAI and Anthropic would be great, but I would love to work at inference literally anywhere. LLMs are super cool and I want more systems problems. Or is the boat sailed and it's too hard to get in?My current issue is that solo learning and bootstrapping is…
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I'm pretty convinced that manual coding will be done by late 2027 for at least webdev. At that point the optimal workflow will be coders controlling agents.Not too far after it will be coders controlling agents who control agents who do the work.We're in for a very tumultuous few years
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Wasn’t this already the trend before LLMs?I remember getting primarily tech lead or other high-senior position listings when doing job searches since at least a couple years
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I am glad that I just retired. I find AI super fascinating but navigating a SW development career in the next few years looks like a daunting task.
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