Careers and AI · Software developer
The verdict for a software developer
Writing code gets hugely assisted; architecture, judgment, integration and answering for the system stay human.
What it means that it mutates: powerful chunks get automated, but the judgment, the relationship, the taste and the responsibility stay human. The trade reorganises; it isn't erased.
In O*NET’s RIASEC framework, software developer maps to a IRC profile within the Technology family. Which is to say, it turns mostly on:
I · Investigative: understanding, analysing, solving problems.
R · Realistic: doing, building, the physical and the tangible.
C · Conventional: ordering, organising, the systematic.
Your trade doesn't disappear, it reorganises: what gets automated stops being paid for, and the value moves up a level. Whoever directs the AI wins; whoever competes with it, loses.
The play for a software developer:
Code generation is real and it is here. Whoever directs the AI ships far more; whoever competes with it types for less money. Go up: architecture, judgment, systems, and knowing what is worth building.
They share a family or interests with software developer. Useful if you’re thinking about a move.
Data analyst
Mutates
Data scientist / ML
Mutates
Systems administrator
Mutates
Cybersecurity engineer
Holds up
QA / software tester
Erodes
UX designer
Mutates
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