I don't think that these predictions will prove accurate, but they're absolutely riddled with the fallacy that what the author prefers and considers "fun" or "boring" are universal opinions. For instance:<p>> In the future, being an engineer will mean managing a fleet of AI agents. Instead of writing code, you'll delegate tasks, review PRs, and provide feedback. It will be like being the tech lead of hundreds of dev interns.<p>If this is actually the future, it sounds like a complete nightmare to me. "Hey, let's replace the parts of the job that are fun and fulfilling with being a manager!"<p>If that were the nature of the job at the start of my career, I would have run from the field as quickly as I could have.
I don't think I believe this as an accurate prediction of the future, but if anything like this comes to be, I think I'll probably just keep doing what I'm doing now, for fun. The predictions here sound pretty bleak. I don't want to manage a team of LLMs sloshing around vectors all day.<p>I can only hope I finish out a fulfilling life doing things I think are interesting that the author seems to dislike in favour of "non-deterministic software" and "manage[-ing] AI tools".<p>I await their first non-deterministic nuclear power plant from a safe distance!