The barrier for entry to become a developer is dropping everyday. The most recent phenomenon that everyone is still talking about is Anysphere’s Cursor AI coding tool, which has basically made everyone a developer. Now, there are more tools coming up in the same category such as Codeium, Magic, and Zed AI, all of them trying to come up with the same formulae.
This definitely brings in the question – what would happen to the software developers of today? Graduating out of colleges with computer science degrees in a world to compete with the people who are becoming software engineers with AI tools, the turmoil of an average software engineer is real.
The solution is easier said than done – upskill yourselves and focus on higher order things such as building foundational AI. Even 8-year-olds are building apps using Cursor AI in 45 minutes.
Software engineers have to upskill faster than anyone else
— Sahil Lavingia (@shl) August 26, 2024