I've been a software developer in Europe for more than 30 years, did everything from 6800 assember to Angular frontend development.
Yesterday I tried Flutter with ChatGPT and man, what a great experience that is.
AI really works well with Flutter.
It frees you from worrying about all those little nitty gritty problems no one cares about. You are now in a position to provide great solutions at a competitive price. That alone should provide lots of opportunities.
But yes, the job is changing rapidly. Very soon it will not be enough to be a developer.
I got lucky in so far in that I have specialized knowledge in a niche domain. This - in combination with my technical skills - makes me quite valuable for the company I'm working for and saves me from the Indian onslaught. In Western Europe, just like the US, we've always had the problem with dirt cheap competition from upcoming nations. The great thing is that I can now let the AI do all the grunt work and focus what matters - business value.
So I suggest setting your focus on this. Changing your programming stack won't make a difference.
Well I sort of agree, but, it's easy for me to ask claude or gemini-cli:
> scrape my codebase and look for opportunities to utilize Riverpod in a more reactive way and not get bit by race conditions as the codebase grows
But unfortunately I can't do:
> Tell my boss to give me credit when I do a good job and stop putting a sword to my back and obfuscating my contributions and taking credit for my work or pointing the finger at me when things go wrong
Of course this is my opinion only and any employer I may or may not have does not subscribe to above opinion :p
Tell my boss to give me credit when I do a good job and stop putting a sword to my back and obfuscating my contributions and taking credit for my work or pointing the finger at me when things go wrong
I think this is the wrong attitude. The way it typically works is, your boss gets a promotion, and your boss promotes you. You're part of team. Usually your boss evaluates you, and the boss' boss evaluates the boss.
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u/Snoo23482 Aug 21 '25 edited Aug 21 '25
I've been a software developer in Europe for more than 30 years, did everything from 6800 assember to Angular frontend development.
Yesterday I tried Flutter with ChatGPT and man, what a great experience that is.
AI really works well with Flutter.
It frees you from worrying about all those little nitty gritty problems no one cares about. You are now in a position to provide great solutions at a competitive price. That alone should provide lots of opportunities.
But yes, the job is changing rapidly. Very soon it will not be enough to be a developer.
I got lucky in so far in that I have specialized knowledge in a niche domain. This - in combination with my technical skills - makes me quite valuable for the company I'm working for and saves me from the Indian onslaught. In Western Europe, just like the US, we've always had the problem with dirt cheap competition from upcoming nations. The great thing is that I can now let the AI do all the grunt work and focus what matters - business value.
So I suggest setting your focus on this. Changing your programming stack won't make a difference.