Waves
@BonsaiTree92
Programmer * Physics
Joined January 2026
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This is a major misconception. SWE has never been about grunt work. It’s always been about knowing the right questions to ask and that only comes with experience/pure talent.
AI doesn’t solve that
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Bro, the thing that keeps me up at night isn't losing my job to AI.
It's that I actually believed the whole "get really good and you'll be fine" advice. So I did.
Spent years coding. Built random side projects nobody used. Contributed to open source. Read docs for fun. Got roasted in code reviews. Slowly got better. And now the market just doesn't care as much as it used to.
Not because the work wasn't worth it. Just because a lot of what used to make people valuable can now be generated on demand.
That's the part that messes with my head.
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