Comment Re:You liked software better in the autistic 80s? (Score 4, Insightful) 152
Great comment. Here's another thought. The difficulty with AI is that about 95% of working with AI is typing in prompts. (Which anybody could do.) The other 5% of it requires serious IT knowledge--usually at a senior level. Thus, the ideal software engineer is someone who thrives on verbal/creative expression--and is willing to learn a deep technical expertise so that they can get past the roadblocks. That describes a very, very small part of the human population. The creativity/social aspects scare away the geeks. The computer science scares away everyone else. In short, I think software development will struggle to get people even after job demand comes back because the job itself appeals to a very small slice of the population.