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Funnily enough I'm an under-employed software engineer hired as a cleanup crew for sprawling tech debt partially caused by AI dependence. My colleagues are sick of it but have to keep generating slop to meet KPIs demanded of us to artificially justify the company expenditure on the failing technology.
I don't think programming will be dead forever but rather there will be decades worth of soul crushing techdebt to fix across multiple industries, with the brain drain screwing over vibe coders after the impending AI economic collapse.
All I can do in the mean time is bide my time and play the long game, focusing on diagnosing and fixing things I know the AI fails miserably at comprehending to establish a record of complex jobs nobody could vibe their way out of. I.e. become the nuclear bomb of knowledge they cannot afford to risk losing.
The problem is, it's going to leave atomic waste behind it. It's like an executive detonated nuclear bomb. There's going to be companies that have millions to billions sunk on non-functional assets and programming. The people who led them into this are going to skip off with a big golden parachute, and there's going to be no debt available and no assets available left behind to do anything with. There will be zombie companies that just kind of tread into irrelevancy, if you are lucky enough to be employed by one, then you'll be fine. Everyone else is fucked.
Just play the game. And start squirrelling money away like you never have before.