Every Time

After speaking with senior devs, This Ai craze is nothing new. We've had people claim CS was dead when we stopped hand writing code and when OOP became a concept and when Wordpress/Wix came out. Its always the same everyone claims "this time its different" but that's been said with every past revolutionary technology. I'm sure ill get every doom sayer claiming "this time its different Ai takes away the critical thinking" No it doesn't. If you actually believe that you havent been coding anything other than simple CRUD apps or class projects. Coding is only a portion of being a SWE. knowing what and why you should build something is the real problem. regardless, if you chose this field for easy money then you're in the wrong. The money is great, but only in short lived amounts of time is the money "easy". I chose This field specifically because the status quo is always changing and evolving. Choose a different career if you want to master one skill set that never changes. I hate not learning anything new I work as a front desk while in school. a guy came in that manages his own software company. he would get excited by ai and how it could do days worth of tasks in a few hours and he was genuinely excited by the possibilities. I asked him "do you think itll replace jobs" and he said "absolutely not, there is always a need for engineers. It better to embrace the technology than fight back". We can be excited by new tech and the possibilities it brings rather than assume the worst. If Ai is this amazing tool that's going to take dev jobs, then start making things. Start creating things that people find useful. Learn to adapt. It always "AI is going to take your job....Soon™" but i'm pretty skeptical.