Originally Posted by victortb View Post
What if I like computers and logic and codes and math?

If you're set on doing something related with coding then probably look into low level / microcontroller development, otherwise I'd try looking into adjacent spheres not directly related to software development in the common understanding.

The thing is, we can dislike and make fun of the way current LLMs work all we want but at the end of the day they will replace a lot of jobs, especially if those aren't tied to maintaining critical systems. Nobody's going to hire real ui / web designers when GPT-10 can shit out something visually identical (and may not even store your whole database in frontend anymore) in 5 seconds. Nobody would want to keep paying a team of backend developers to work on a system for 6 months when Claude 8 writes the same system a little bit worse after a few prompts. So what if nobody knows what happens in that code it wrote, it's there and it works for the moment so it's gotta be good.

We're already seeing products that are pretty much entirely vibe coded and they're being launched when these "ai agents" may decide to just ignore any orders and purge your prod database. They will eventually stop doing that (probably, some time), so the number of such products will only keep increasing to a point where companies will seriously consider outsourcing most if not all of their development to LLMs.
While the industry may not be able to completely get itself rid of human developers (especially at senior positions), it will likely run itself into a weird state of having no junior / mid developers that can grow into future seniors in the next decade because all those jobs were replaced by LLMs because it was cheaper that way for the moment.
So yeah, if you're studying CS now or planning to get into it I'd say there's a good risk of having a lot of trouble searching for a job once you get that degree. I hope I'm wrong but that's what I feel we're heading into even if (after?) current ai bubble bursts.
Last edited by sir; Aug 27, 2025 at 06:25 AM.