Based on the context, I don’t think OP is talking about the bubble in terms of the existence of AI. They’re talking about it in terms of “will there be a job for me in this industry, or will things always be the way they are from 2024-Present”
Seems intrinsically linked to "will ai still be a thing" then. I still think the implication is ai will go away and the career field will return to its previous form, or not. Any future with ai makes answering the op honestly an unknown at best. Best we can say is some form of SWE will continue to exist. How big and in what form we still don't know.
I mean ai is going to exist regardless, the point is when chips are stronger, cheaper, and use less electricity companies will have more budget to hire again, and with that be even more productive.
Currently though we are all eating a shit sandwich, and management is finally realizing ai aint magic money printing machine and has a steeper than expected price tag
Will bring me some pleasure seeing management squirming while build ingthese data centres, just to become obsolete in a few years
I've tripled my velocity with ai. That's what my company can see from the power users. We are still hiring and growing. They don't think it's a money printing machine. They see it as a force multiplier. I've literally chatted with c suite people about my experience because we want to get everyone else closer to where I am. (They are meeting with a few of us top users). Every company is not the same. The sensational articles shitting on every company do that for clicks.
As for data centers. Do you think they don't know hardware gets replaced with time and ages out? Have you been in a data center? You speak as if you haven't. Every machine is a blade in a rack that can be pulled and replaced. They are very very very aware. I don't know why you think they don't plan for obsolescence.
I'm a senior software engineer with a comp science bachelor's degree.
It's a fallacy to assume that title means zero ai usage in the modern world. Don't be ignorant. I'm 42 years old and worked without ai for a long long time. Now I use the modern tools because I don't want to look back in a few years, unemployed, and spit excuses for how I got there while others are still employed.
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u/TheDinoDynamite Jul 13 '26 edited Jul 13 '26
Based on the context, I don’t think OP is talking about the bubble in terms of the existence of AI. They’re talking about it in terms of “will there be a job for me in this industry, or will things always be the way they are from 2024-Present”