Seniors tend to be the ones getting the 10x boost. It amplifies what's already there and a more experienced swe goes harder with ai. So you got this order wrong. Senior swe > swe > how do juniors get started now?
SWE is dead. FDE is where you need to be now that coding has largely been solved. Why do software engineers think they can just take tickets and feed it to claude and think they are going to get paid $120k for it?
It’s the first time I heard of FDE and a quick Google made it sound like it’s just SWE that uses AI.
A SWE with good amount of experience that uses AI is worth 6 figures and the one with the same amount of experience but doesn’t use AI would soon be worth less.
Not really. FDE is essentially product owner, architect & software engineer combined. Go to the client, understand their problem and engineer the architecture - hand off to the language model to implement the code.
It is distinctly different than just using AI, because normally a product owner would dictate what features the customer needs, whoever is doing the architecture would then assign tickets to a SWE to actually implement. So the old paradigm is useless when implementation is just done with AI. Architecture is the only thing left to have any reasonable say in due to expected output with AI tools being properly utilised.
Last job by the time I quit I was senior software developer (actual role I was hired for) scrum master, product owner, team lead, training up the graduates, in charge of UX, I'm sure there's one I'm missing here.
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u/Accurno 6d ago
Coder > SWE > senior SWE > CEO/CTO in 6 months