Ask HN: In the Age of AI, How Do I Grow as a Software Engineer?
The never ending promise of my job being automated away is soul crushing, especially considering I made a career change & got a 2nd BS degree in computer science to get into the software space.
I'm really at a loss given how bleak things are made out to seem and its really crushed my motivation. I don't have a lot of senior engineers around me and I am eager to find a better environment. But in trying to prepare to do so I don't know how I evolve as the career changes (or dies?).
Where should I be spending my time? What should I be learning?
Claude can make decisions about architecture and create an implementation in code. If I've never been experienced to real system design in practice or know much of the programming language it chose to use, how do I bridge that gap?