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1 day ago
Content_Complex_8080
How can we grow with AI in career?
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Many posts on LinkedIn always talks about things like "AI won't replace your jobs. People who use AI will" or "You need to adapt". But those words are actually very vague. Suppose someone has been doing frontend engineer for several decades, how is this person supposed to adapt suddenly and become AI engineer? And also not every engineer can become AI engineers. Some of them, and I think it is the same for many people, will somehow change career too. What's your thoughts on personal growth with AI?
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Acrobatic_Topic_6849
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1d ago
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They're empty platitudes. AI will replace a massive portion of jobs and many will have no where to run to. 
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abrandis
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19h ago
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Something like this , basically AI vibe codes applications in the coming years will become the norm and fewer and fewer swe will be kept around to clean up hallucinated AI slop and maybe customize certain apps that AI can't handle (think legacy As/400 that has minimal and proprietary code that AI has no training data on)...

But all that translates into lot fewer a software devs making decent money... Right now there's about 1.6m software devs in the US )in all roles and functions) , I can see that number going down to 1m in a decade ..the average salary is $133k/year, those that remain will likely see an increase in pay... But far far fewer openings. The golden age of the SWE as a high paying career is over SWE career 1970-2020 RIP 🪦
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ImYoric
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14h ago

It's really hard to predict. Alternatively, there might be so much code that the number of SWEs needed to clean it up might increase.

It's not the first technology that claims to replace developers. Previous attempts include COBOL, SQL, Prolog, LISP, Visual Basic, 4th Generation Languages, NoCode, LowCode, etc. So far, each of these technologies has either vanished or contributed to redefine the job while increasing the demand.

So... I guess we'll see.
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abrandis
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14h ago
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We will see, but this time it's different, because regular people (non technical) are already using these AI tools and getting decent results, building apps , analyzing data, excel macros etc... so if your average person can build a working app as long as they can describe the functionality in detail ,there's no reason you need a specialist...that's why I think this is fundamentally different than just a newer language.
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B3ntDownSpoon
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17h ago

delusional
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abrandis
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16h ago
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How so.. .. you don't think that's already happening?
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l-isqof
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15h ago

Quite a few large companies are already jumping into the AI abyss, laying off very significant percentages of their staff to make shareholder reports look good. The resulting work from these AI bots won't be great, but who cares... they'll just squeeze the remaining staff to churn more work, under the threat that they're next.

It will happen unfortunately, and governments really need to be proactive on this one in the next few years.
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Few_Durian419
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1d ago

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PlayfulMonk4943
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1d ago

Reality is, nobody knows. But that's the nature of the future, and when you mix in something as potent as AI, go figure. And I feel like a lot of what people are feeling is a loss of agency, and that loss of agency is going to dump them on the wrong side of a growing economic divide.

I'd say probably the best bet is any type of creativity or problem discovery. Not 100% convinced problem solving is that strong of a skill. Go to any company and you'll find teams of engineers who make incredibly cool solutions to problems, but finding someone who can uniquely touch on the human element is tough.

The more defensible skills feel like they'll be uniquely human traits because right now, AI is only using historical data to make it's predictions and as far as I know, isn't 'thinking creatively' to be more forward thinking, and people are weird.

Humans have very strange and cool reactions to certain things that are not entirely predictable, and I don't think that's going away.

Will AI come for the human element? I think it'll try. Will it do it better than humans can? Not sure. If it can't solve it and only get some % the way there, then a human will still need to be in the loop.
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SilverMammoth7856
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19h ago

Growing with AI in your career means building on your existing strengths-like UI/UX, problem-solving, or domain expertise-and learning how to integrate or collaborate with AI systems, rather than trying to become a pure AI engineer overnight. Not everyone needs to switch roles; instead, adapting means upskilling for AI-powered workflows, creating user-centric AI interfaces, or specializing in areas where human skills and AI complement each other
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NoordZeeNorthSea
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20h ago
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I don’t know how to program front end. I do have programming skills, but not in front end languages, also not in the typical back end. 

using LLMs I can generate template front end code, understand it, and deploy.

So specialise, be the best in what you can do.
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Coochanawe
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14h ago

Think of AI as an accelerator. Pair every human with an AI and the human and the AI are a force multiplier.

Humans not performing manual labor are focused on directing the AI, and having knowledge enough to question AI decisions to guide it back on track.

Right now there are very few “interfaces” that clearly funnel the use of LLMs (they are integrated like in ms word or they are very general like an image generator). This means there are not widely available LLMs catered specifically for a Customer Service Representative.

The people who learn how to prompt their AI to accelerate them will take that job ad a customer service representative over someone who is exactly the same as them without AI.

Now someone who has great communication skills, has strong general education, etc. is going to win everything with an AI accelerating them.

And when one person can handle more work, less people are needed.

This is now and the near future. Don’t worry about all jobs being wiped - worry about dragging your feet on using AI to improve every aspect of your life through learning.
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Content_Complex_8080
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13h ago

Nice insights. Could you talk more about this point? "Now someone who has great communication skills, has strong general education, etc. is going to win everything with an AI accelerating them."

Any specific example?
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Coochanawe
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13h ago

The problem with human workers who have equal knowledge are soft skills and decision making (confidence).

The problem with human buyers (in this case hirers) is implicit bias.

The only thing AI can’t do is influence a buyer to choose a hunchback with a community college degree over an Adonis with an Ivy League degree - even though they have the exact same capabilities.

AI in the hands of someone with all the chips in their favor is a golden ticket.

AI in the hands of someone with a disadvantage is an equalizer.

In either scenario it is an accelerator. The loser is the one who does not learn to leverage it to meet their ends.

We should all be acting like Tony Stark with Jarvis using our preferred LLM and operator and integrating it into everything we do to accelerate us.

If you have trouble conversing, talk to a model even though it feels uncomfortable.

If you lack structure and institutional knowledge in your thinking, talk to a model.

If you have 10 things to do today, share it with a model and align it with your personal development goals - it will not only help you effectively accomplish your tasks but help you attache meaning to your actions that contribute to your overall development.
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DriftingEasy
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7h ago

You would be surprised how hard it is to actually use AI effectively in business use cases, or really any deliverable use-case. Most people are not going to know how to work with AI, you have to learn how, and I honestly think that takes more intellectual curiosity than most people want to invest.
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Content_Complex_8080
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7h ago

Strongly agree!!!
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Mental_Shower1475
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3h ago

From a doomer perspective, we are couple of years away from replacing a current 100 software engineers company with 10.

From a optimist one, AI is going to create so many new way of doing things, every industry will need AI engineers, technicians.

The real panic will begin when AI robots will take over jobs like cooking,cleaning,agriculture or other laborious work, I'm not sure how far we are from these sort of robots breakthrough. Nobody expected chatgpt or other stuffs to be this good by this year. I mean text is the easiest stuff to manuplate for computers but AI graphics stuffs is gaining serious traction too these days.
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opolsce
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1d ago

Someone doing frontend development can learn to use the AI tools that make him more efficient at his job. Did you read the letters from the bosses of Shopify, Duolingo and Fiverr?
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Content_Complex_8080
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1d ago

But isn't it make it harder to earn decent living as frontend engineers?
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23h ago

Yup, that's the purpose. To pay less for more work done.
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CosmicQuantum42
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16h ago

Overall this dynamic results in lower prices globally for goods.

It’s really no different than any other manufacturing or information trend over the 20-21st century.

Individuals get rich, some individuals get poorer, but overall everyone gets somewhat richer.
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Open_Insect_8589
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14h ago

Income disparity has just worsened over time and innovation. I will be very surprised AI lessens the income disparity and is good for everyone.
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CosmicQuantum42
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13h ago

It doesn’t need to lessen the disparity.

It just needs for the poor to be richer than they were before.

Income inequality has skyrocketed over the last 100 years. But you’d much rather be poor in 2025 than in 1925, probably by a factor of like 10.
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Unicorns_in_space
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1d ago

Start apprenticeship now and flex with it, get into the training and deployment AND the never ending task of teaching the meat brains how to use the damn stuff. (no this will not magically happen without people being shown the absolute basics).
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Raffino_Sky
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1d ago

Trainers can earn decent money now, but it will pop eventually and as popular as Word and Excel trainings, paying scraps.
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Unicorns_in_space
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23h ago

Yes. But I meant the proper training technical managers, not the shitty fake job dubious online "earn quick training our ai" lumpen
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JudgeLennox
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23h ago

AI is no different than any other tool. It’s utility is dictated by the user. The person’s creativity determines their success.

We know most people aren’t creative. They’re reactive.

So when we say people who use/have AI bots will lead. We mean the people sophisticated enough to know how to prompt.

Meaning they can think critically and creatively WITHOUT the tool. It’s a skill one can train so that’s a plus. However that person must know they need to train it first
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Content_Complex_8080
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7h ago

Make senses. From a career or job hunting perspective especially for new grad and younger professionals, how do you think they can adapt?
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mfi12
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19h ago

Youre not really expected to be an ai engineer, but rather to integrate llm into your existing domain(fe,be,devops,...)
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Content_Complex_8080
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7h ago

sort of a long learning curve I guess
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T0ysWAr
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13h ago

If you have years of front end development you can today leverage your skills to build faster more reliable with the right architecture and all the testing required with the help of AI.

Today AI systems are not good at the high level expertise
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Content_Complex_8080
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13h ago

Then I guess the market wouldn't need that many frontend engineers soon? What are the choices for new grad or those with less than 5 years experience?
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T0ysWAr
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12h ago

I would say spend less time worrying and more time learning. AI is a fantastic way to discover subjects. However practice initially with but then without (at least for the topic you are learning, only use autocomplete not think/agent).
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T0ysWAr
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12h ago

Focus on studying core subjects. The important point is to learn to think.

Then any core dev skill (algo) as well as architecture skills
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Any_Influence_189
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9h ago

There's no way there's a job as an AI engineer for everyone who is currently working an office job. When you hear this, it's bullshit. Plain and simple. Millions of people are going to lose their jobs, they just don't want people to riot.
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u/Advanced-Donut-2436 avatar
Advanced-Donut-2436
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23h ago

Godwilling. Its a great transition.
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