> Sure, I can watch Opus do my work all day long and make sure to intervene if it fucks up here and there, but how long will it be until even that is not needed anymore?
Right: if you expect your job as a software developer to be effectively the same shape on a year or two you're in for a bad time.
But humans can adapt! Your goal should be to evolve with the tools that are available. In a couple of years time you should be able to produce significantly more, better code, solving more ambitious profiles and making you more valuable as a software professional.
That's how careers have always progressed: I'm a better, faster developer today than I was two years ago.
I'll worry for my career when I meet a company that has a software roadmap that they can feasibly complete.
I just wanted to say I think it is doing people a great disservice to advocate for these specific kinds of tools, but the last paragraph is a universally correct statement, seemingly permanently.
Right: if you expect your job as a software developer to be effectively the same shape on a year or two you're in for a bad time.
But humans can adapt! Your goal should be to evolve with the tools that are available. In a couple of years time you should be able to produce significantly more, better code, solving more ambitious profiles and making you more valuable as a software professional.
That's how careers have always progressed: I'm a better, faster developer today than I was two years ago.
I'll worry for my career when I meet a company that has a software roadmap that they can feasibly complete.