Ah the junior dev starry-eyed mindset. Doing web dev isn't the only thing in the world.
AI will absolutely accelerate development, but we still need so much more modernization across all industries. We still have factories running on Windows NT with software made in the 80s. We have mines, lumberyards, farms, retail, parking, bio labs, etc. So many things need to be upgraded to the same standard as big tech is, but hasn't because it was too expensive.
Much of this AI isn't great at. It's easy to just spit out a web page with reactJS that was done 10,000x times already by millions of devs, but it's not so easy to make sure your smelter doesn't overheat or go cold using 20,000 live sensors.
New devs will have a harder time getting in, but they'll also have an easier time learning. Senior devs will be able to supervise much more.
The industry will change, but it's far from over. If anything, it will grow massively and make other industries much more productive.
The word "tech industry" is one of the more hilarious terms. Sure, some startup with a website and App, is "technology", but aircrafts, cars, rockets, heavy machinery (which all make heavy use of complex software, with rigorous safety constraints and which all involve ongoing academic research, as well as extremely detailed Design processes) is not "technology".
Truly one of the more grandiose terms people in the software industry use to describe themselves. Same with every single person calling themselves an engineer, something which in many countries would be illegal.
Can you provide an example of a company I would have heard of that is in the tech industry, just so I can get a better understanding of what y'all are talking about?
Is Oracle in the tech industry?
Also on the blog post you linked you seem to imply that you do consider Google to be a tech industry company, so I am very confused.
> In tech industry, software is the main product of the company. It can be sold to a customer (B2C product) or a business (B2B product).
> For example, Facebook is the main product of Meta. Google Search is the main product of Google.
It depends on what you consider as core product for Google.
For some people (consumer), it would be Google Search, it is a piece of software, so in that sense Google is a tech company because its main product is Google Search.
However, for marketers, who use Google Ads, to them they deal with the ads division in Google, and that division's main product is the ads service. So in that indivision, the main product is ad space, not software. And rightfully so Google Ads is not in the tech industry, but ad industry enabled by tech.
For pure tech companies, I would say AWS division in Amazon, Microsoft (Windows, Azure, GitHub divisions), Facebook/Instagram division in Meta (not Ads division).
Then there are a lot of companies that just sell software as a service (SaaS) or just software license, they are millions of them, but to name a few: Figma, Slack, Vercel, Supabase, Docker, OpenAI, Salesforce, Oracle.
AI will absolutely accelerate development, but we still need so much more modernization across all industries. We still have factories running on Windows NT with software made in the 80s. We have mines, lumberyards, farms, retail, parking, bio labs, etc. So many things need to be upgraded to the same standard as big tech is, but hasn't because it was too expensive.
Much of this AI isn't great at. It's easy to just spit out a web page with reactJS that was done 10,000x times already by millions of devs, but it's not so easy to make sure your smelter doesn't overheat or go cold using 20,000 live sensors.
New devs will have a harder time getting in, but they'll also have an easier time learning. Senior devs will be able to supervise much more.
The industry will change, but it's far from over. If anything, it will grow massively and make other industries much more productive.