提问 HN：我该离开软件行业吗？
2 分•作者: apatheticonion•10 个月前
大家好，
我有 10 年的专业经验，从 11 岁就开始写代码。最初做全栈 Web 应用，后来扩展到硬件编程和编写构建工具等细分领域。
看看 AI 的发展和就业市场的现状，我感到很沮丧。
AI 编码工具已经相当不错了（在现有项目上能提高 10% 的生产力），而且，如果 AI 的进步是指数级的，那么在 5 到 10 年内取代大部分问题也并非不合理。
我可能只是被 AI 的营销炒作给忽悠了，但作为一个享受编程本身乐趣的人，我感觉那些曾经让我兴奋的编程方面/知识，现在或将来都会被解决。
这就像你开始在电子游戏中作弊，然后它就失去了魔力。
再加上薪资的下降以及雇主提出的越来越高的压力/要求，我开始考虑重返大学或从事焊接或电工学徒之类的行业。
你们怎么看待软件工程师这个职业？
附注：我来自澳大利亚，所以虽然薪水不错，但我从未获得过像你在 FANG 公司听到的那种疯狂的“提早退休”的薪酬福利，所以我需要在可预见的未来继续工作。
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Hi all,<p>I have 10 years professional experience and have been coding since age 11. Starting on full stack web applications and branching into niche areas like hardware programming and writing build tools.<p>Looking at the state of AI and the state of the job market - I feel disheartened.<p>AI coding tools are pretty good (say 10% uplift in productivity in brownfield) and, if AI improvement is exponential, it's not unreasonable to expect it to replace a majority of the problems in a 5 - 10 year window.<p>I might just be falling for AI marketing hype but, as someone who enjoys the craft for the craft, I feel like the aspects/knowledge of programming that excite me have/will be solved.<p>It has the same taste as when you start cheating on a video game and it loses its magic.<p>That combined with the reduction in salary and the increase is stress/demands from employers has me starting to consider going back to university or taking up a trade like welding or apprentice as an electrician.<p>How do you feel about software engineering as a career?<p>P.S. I'm Australian so, while well compensated, I never got the insane "retire early" compensation packages you hear about in FANG so I'll need to continue working for the foreseeable future.