Open AI coming for Software Engineering

Just saw the video clip of Obama talking about AI Agents taking Software Engineer Jobs by WIRED. He's not an Engineer, but this is still a good insight as to what the non-technical executive perspective could be on this stuff. The whole agenda about Open AI coming for Software Engineering jobs has me conflicted. I am not sure whether to welcome the changes with open arms or be sad that something I spent my lifetime mastering is becoming obsolete altogether or reduced to only hobbyist enjoyment. But also, being a typist doesn't make you a programmer, just like being able to describe a product doesn't give you a fully based SAAS clone. I've thought much about how the changing landscape would affect Software Engineering careers, there seems to be multiple possible outcomes. But the fact that there will be change is certain - the industry already changed and continues to change so quickly that we have yet to feel the whiplash effect of using AI generated code into our codebases see open pending lawsuits - not to mention there is this concept of 'poisoning' emerging that can honey trap AI training data into destroying its output accuracy. The universe has a funny way about it

Apr 21, 2025 - 21:46

Just saw the video clip of Obama talking about AI Agents taking Software Engineer Jobs by WIRED. He's not an Engineer, but this is still a good insight as to what the non-technical executive perspective could be on this stuff.

The whole agenda about Open AI coming for Software Engineering jobs has me conflicted. I am not sure whether to welcome the changes with open arms or be sad that something I spent my lifetime mastering is becoming obsolete altogether or reduced to only hobbyist enjoyment. But also, being a typist doesn't make you a programmer, just like being able to describe a product doesn't give you a fully based SAAS clone.

I've thought much about how the changing landscape would affect Software Engineering careers, there seems to be multiple possible outcomes. But the fact that there will be change is certain - the industry already changed and continues to change so quickly that we have yet to feel the whiplash effect of using AI generated code into our codebases see open pending lawsuits - not to mention there is this concept of 'poisoning' emerging that can honey trap AI training data into destroying its output accuracy. The universe has a funny way about it