AI Software Engineer : Skills Inversion
Agentic Tinder, Software Shrinks and other theories
Inversions are fun. There is a danger and a clarity in stepping out of the safety of ‘gray’ predictions into black-and-white .. so here’s my take on the future of Software re-skilling to come (with some getting on the train, and others falling off it). I relabeled it GenAI Ware in retrospect .. because it is going to be softer than software (unless we flex our definitions to where Hollywood Writers write software)
A tweet that is getting resonance with VCs is “We’re at the point with AI codegen where Cursor + Claude 3.5 Sonnet is a legit technical cofounder.”. McKay Wrigley has lived GenAI for a couple of years - so his insights have cred - https://twitter.com/mckaywrigley/status/1826684185949733174
I have been encouraging CS depts to be aggressive about introducing ‘Storytelling’ minors (theater, english, pedagogy) to no avail. I think industry needs will assert themselves upon academia with the usual lag (5 years!).