So now i find myself on the job market for IT specialists right in the middle of AI take-over. The jobs are shifting towards AI automation or so. At least any code seems to be written now by AI, and in the best case reviewed by a human. After thinking for a few days what job i am interested in, talking about it to AI, i start feeling over-helmed by the requirements companies are asking for. Are there already Senior AI Architects in Germany? Not sure.
Anyway, how do these changes concern me? Looking at the job market, everything is nowadays Frontend, DevOps, Finance or Embedded it seems. Common Software Development vanished except for a few jobs at old-fashioned companies. I wonder who is developing all those tools and libraries? This are spare time projects multi-trillion-dollar companies are built on. Finally all application code is written either for iOS, Android or Web. Which eventually maps to Swift, Kotlin and html5/css/Javascript. And Embedded is another field, hardware product development. Which I am just not motivated anymore.
So where to go from here now? What are the options? Finally dealing more with people, dealing more with what? Where to head from here? Damn i lost traction in the market. Now spinning around myself. What is truly needed? Can this even be determined as the market is changing so quickly? One things is definitely important. Build systems which not only build but track, verify and release changes while still allowing quick rollbacks. Right? People want to deploy very quickly new features to their customers while letting the customer test, but bugs are still possible, so rollbacks will be more important than ever. Will they?
The tricky will still be, while people using this new infrastructure, they feed AI with the solution training it themselves to replace their works putting them into a situation where they need to try stay ahead of the machine's skills. The faster they hustle the more they improve the machine, which does not need to breath. The better the machine the more you hustle. It/IT looks to me like a mouse in a spinning wheel. Platform-Capitalism on Steroids.