AI is not replacing you, it's promoting you
If you’ve been following the recent labor market impact assessments—specifically the latest research from Anthropic—the numbers look startling at first glance. Computer programmers are listed at the very top of the “exposed” list, with a staggering 75% of our tasks identified as being within the reach of AI automation. But as someone who has navigated the industry for over two decades, I can’t shake the feeling that I’ve kind of seen this movie before. Long before I started coding, assembler experts were alarmed with the rise of COBOL and Fortran. Flashforward a few decades and the rise of IDEs were the new cause of panic, followed by the “low-code” movement, and the offshore outsourcing waves a few years later. Each time, the narrative is the same: The end of the software development career is near. ...