The Cloud was meant to decimate engineering AND development. But what it did was it created enough chaos that theres a higher demand for both than ever, just maybe not in your region and for your skillset.
LLMs are guaranteed to cause chaos, but the outcome of that chaos is not predictable. Will every coder now output the same as a team of 30 BUT there are 60 times as many screwed up projects made by wannabe founders that you have to come in and clean up? Will businesses find ways to automate code development and then turn around and have to bring the old guys back in constantly to fix up the pipeline. Will we all be coding in black boxes that the AI fills in?
I would make sure you just increase your skills and increase your familiarity with LLMs in case they become mandatory.
This isnt true. Cloud definitely completely changed the market for sysadmin and network engineers. Some folks managed to retrain but many were left out post dotcom bubble.
Like system engineers need to learn some new VM terminology, and network engineers need to know how to configure an IPSEC vpn to azure.
Its a far cry from the "Your job will be replaced by a puppet script" that we were being threatened with.
This might have happened to the top 5% of businesses, but crucially, everyone below that went and spent millions of dollars on reforming their business in the cloud, but ended up just moving a clone of their prod on prem environment into the cloud, and didnt make enough of a change to take advantage of the efficiencies of cloud. So they hired more engineers, not less, and they chuffed on.
At the end of the day, the cloud was a win for your CTO. The actual practical experience and costs of the cloud are irrelevant. AI is much the same.
The Cloud was meant to decimate engineering AND development. But what it did was it created enough chaos that theres a higher demand for both than ever, just maybe not in your region and for your skillset.
LLMs are guaranteed to cause chaos, but the outcome of that chaos is not predictable. Will every coder now output the same as a team of 30 BUT there are 60 times as many screwed up projects made by wannabe founders that you have to come in and clean up? Will businesses find ways to automate code development and then turn around and have to bring the old guys back in constantly to fix up the pipeline. Will we all be coding in black boxes that the AI fills in?
I would make sure you just increase your skills and increase your familiarity with LLMs in case they become mandatory.