"I don't know if my job will still exist in ten years" by Sean Goedecke https://www.seangoedecke.com/will-my-job-still-exist/
Basically took the words out of my mouth. I wish I had written this.
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I would love to say that this is just AI psychosis, but at this point I'm asking Claude to write the code, review it, monitor the deployment, identify structural flaws, design the next architecture, etc. My taste and judgment are there, but how much longer can I cling to that? And if I'm saying that, how must *juniors* feel?
Even a year ago you needed a lot of elbow grease, but the mistakes and hallucinations have really gone down since then. The trajectory seems terrifyingly clear.
I've always felt at some level that the job of a software engineer (a good one, anyway) is to automate yourself out of a job. If you're running some step manually every day, write a Bash script. Set up alarms. Reduce the bus factor. Etc etc.
I guess it never occurred to me that we might reach some plateau where nearly everything could be automated, but it feels like we're reaching that endgame now. I recognized this about a year ago and it made me extremely depressed.