Does Being a GTM Engineer Beat Being an Engineer? The Truth
I have a joke in my stand-up act:
We spent 20 years telling coal miners to learn how to code, and now AI is doing all the coding and needs more electricity, so… back to the mines they go!
It’s a joke, but it belies an underlying truth. Coding boot camps became a refuge for people whose industries and roles were being automated out from under them. Now the refuge itself is getting automated, and software engineers are in a quandary.
So what’s a software engineer supposed to do?
One option is to get very good at reviewing AI output: reading PRs, catching logical mistakes, doing regression testing on things AI built. Nobody signed up to be a full-time reviewer of a machine’s work, but that’s honestly where a lot of knowledge work is heading. In fact, I am editing an AI’s revision of this article right now! Playing Where’s...
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