Pretty much. Everything is about prompt now. Its either "You aren't prompting right", or "Need to prompt harder/more accurately/etc". The only skill that matters now seems to be using a paid vendor product (pick your favorite proprietary AI chatbot) - which isn't really a long term skill at all nor really all that technical.
Whether its true or not it is besides the point - its getting kind of boring and it seems to be drowning everything else. It feels at least from the outside like a profession that used to require intelligence/skill, and something creative problem solving just went downhill fast. The anti-SWE crowd (e.g VC's, AI devs, CEO's, etc) seems to be winning the argument at the moment as to what the future will bring in these forums. Every podcast I hear its always software engineering that is mentioned as the industry to be disrupted away.
Who would of thought the job of the future only 5 years ago would be the first to go? Hope I'm wrong, but it seems the AI crowd's main target atm.
Whether its true or not it is besides the point - its getting kind of boring and it seems to be drowning everything else. It feels at least from the outside like a profession that used to require intelligence/skill, and something creative problem solving just went downhill fast. The anti-SWE crowd (e.g VC's, AI devs, CEO's, etc) seems to be winning the argument at the moment as to what the future will bring in these forums. Every podcast I hear its always software engineering that is mentioned as the industry to be disrupted away.
Who would of thought the job of the future only 5 years ago would be the first to go? Hope I'm wrong, but it seems the AI crowd's main target atm.