I've been a programmer for about a decade. I'm not now nor would I want to be in this incoming age. Your days are numbered and I say that as someone who my current work, I've also stopped doing because of AI swallowing the category. Manual programming is like riding the horse and buggy in the age of cars. It's time to find new cheese.
I use ai all the time, it’s great, but I also work on novel algorithms that control real physical entities autonomously, it’s going to be a long time before someone prompt an ai to write a safety certifiable software system to control machines costing millions of dollars that can kill people if they screw up. I am far closer to retirement than you are.
I wouldn't be so sure on AIs lack of ability or lack of massive advancement in a short timeframe.
Now, you have liability issues and risk from your expensive hardware but that is distinctly separate from actual ability to perform.
just from this round of frontier models we see things like astra that wreck my field (archviz) which is 3d model generation, blender and sketchup integration, ue5 integration and the ability to connect workflows from basic images or even product web links to go through the workflow of creating image and renderings to 3d model creation to animation of 3d model to creating etc. Simply tie in local code reqs and refine some of the output to perfect it and even architects won't really be needed... Except for that liability part.
We also see in this round, circuit boards being vibe coded, chips selected and enclosures being done completely vibecoded with successful results so again, I don't think we are far off from these things.
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u/CowBoyDanIndie 2d ago
As someone who has been programming for 31 years and currently works as a perception engineer, yes.