justchad

I have been a software engineer for about 15 years and am kind of burnt out. Thinking about switching industries and am curious if anyone has made the switch to a CAD Drafting role? If so how was it, did your background in SWE help with the transition? Just exploring my options at the moment so open to other fields as well if you have any ideas.

I am at a crossroads, and I'm thinking about taking some extended time off for a sabbatical for like a year or so. I want to know if that will hurt my chances of resuming a career as a software engineer since things are changing so rapidly with AI. For context, I am a Founding Engineer of a successful startup. I have been an engineer for 15 years and plan to continue writing software while on sabbatical but obviously not as much as I currently do day to day. Do you think I will have a hard time returning to the field should I choose to do so?

I am a software engineer with nearly 15 YOE and as I progressed I have been drawn more and more towards product. I am interested in transitioning to the PM role at a startup but would like to be setup for success upon doing so. What classes, books, courses, etc would you recommend to someone with my background?

I've been the Founding Engineer of a startup for almost 9 years. Over the course of 9 years I have become extremely burnt out for a variety of reasons. I can't exactly quit the company and don't really want to, but I need to figure out how to recover from burnout. It's affecting my home life, happiness, anxiety, nearly everything. It's to the point where I don't feel capable as a developer anymore and have lost all confidence in myself. I am seeing a therapist but haven't really had a breakthrough yet. I have seen several other therapists as well with the same outcome. So my long winded explanation comes to a single question: In your experience how much time off was enough time off to recover from burnout?

I am currently the CTO of a mid-size company (200+ people) and am getting burnt out on engineering. I am interested in transitioning from engineering to product management at some point in the future.

I would like to hear from other engineers that have made the transition to learn more about how it went and how you landed your first gig.

I was thinking about all of the recent tools that have popped up for AI over the last few years and wondered if anyone chained all of them together and then iterated on it like 100k times. For example: put in a simple piece of text to GPT-3 and have it expand the text, then feed that into Stable Diffusion. Take that result and use it as a source image for Dall-E, then take that and use AI to generate a description of the image and then have GPT-3 expand on that, feed it into stable diffusion, so-on and so-forth until you have done it 100k times. I imagine the result would be really weird and am curious if you have seen or done that?