My background is now exactly 20 years full time programming. I'm currently a senior developer on a good income.
And I am posting this to tell of the change.
The latest ai model, claude sonnet 4, plus visual studio code agent mode. Has made software developers obsolete.
It can code more in an hour than i can in a week. Trust me, i did not want this to be true. It aggrieved me to see years of study so casually outshone.
What does the future hold? Developers will migrate into "AI editors " roles or be sacked. Running multiple AI at once. Relegated to system architects and supervisors.
So seniors like me are in a good place. Intermediates and juniors are fucked.
My prediction is that we will witness many thousands of developers laid off. 1 senior will do the work of an entire team.
The market will get flooded with new saas built in weeks as opposed to years it took competitors.
I have begun my transistion from the dead industry to the new. I recommend all fellow upgoat devs start immediately to do the same.
You have a pretty optimistic view of healthcare. If you haven't already you may want to spend some time talking to someone who works in medicine. You said you didn't want to use computers but they are everywhere in the this field and I hope they become more pervasive in fact removing the human contribution altogether in a lot of areas. People are fucking stupid and sometimes intelligent people are the worst. Healthcare is packed with "smart" people who can only regurgitate info and will never question Rockefeller et al. The whole basis for modern healthcare is to retard and keep people ill. You may be aware of this already. But as it stands now, you aren't just allowed to do what you think is right in healthcare. You will have hoops to jump thru like you wouldn't believe. You will need to balance what you think you should do vs. what you can get away with, constantly. Covid made this even more apparent. It's good you're not in it for the money b/c you won't make much unless you specialize or are a surgeon or have been in the field for sometime. You want children but you will not have much free time for years. If you are able to find a quality woman to reproduce with, you likely won't be able to be very present in her or the children's lives. If I could rewind the clock 25 years I would never have gone into healthcare.
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You have a pretty optimistic view of healthcare. If you haven't already you may want to spend some time talking to someone who works in medicine.
You said you didn't want to use computers but they are everywhere in the this field and I hope they become more pervasive in fact removing the human contribution altogether in a lot of areas. People are fucking stupid and sometimes intelligent people are the worst. Healthcare is packed with "smart" people who can only regurgitate info and will never question Rockefeller et al. The whole basis for modern healthcare is to retard and keep people ill. You may be aware of this already.
But as it stands now, you aren't just allowed to do what you think is right in healthcare. You will have hoops to jump thru like you wouldn't believe. You will need to balance what you think you should do vs. what you can get away with, constantly. Covid made this even more apparent.
It's good you're not in it for the money b/c you won't make much unless you specialize or are a surgeon or have been in the field for sometime.
You want children but you will not have much free time for years. If you are able to find a quality woman to reproduce with, you likely won't be able to be very present in her or the children's lives.
If I could rewind the clock 25 years I would never have gone into healthcare.