The most future-proof career move right now, is to be human. What a human can do with a computer, it can be observed, replicated and refined. If you rely on a computer skill to survive, sorry my friend, you can be replaced.
Even low-level engineering can be replicated. At the very least, embedded engineers can use Ai to ping-pong ideas and come up with inspirations.
Being low-level does not mean we won’t use Ai or Ai won’t make the task easier. A group of researchers taking interest in a field are expected to find decent solutions. Why Ai fails at specialized tasks is that LLM authors try to tackle the most common tasks. Focus refines niche tasks.
Critical fields are not insulated from tech advances, we just have to make sure there is a way to verify that the generated code is good enough. And it’s not far, the time when this will be done.
What can’t be replaced is you, the human. Writing code was always a surrogate for natural human expression. The clearer a human expresses himself, the clearer should the output be. We observe this with LLMs. The clearer the prompts, the clearer the results, mostly at least.
Humans will always rule the world. And humans like humans to interact with. The loftier a human is, the easier it is for him to interact with others. Tools are subservient to man. And they flow according to the influence of great men.
People, addicted to laziness and wanting to be done away with labour, will increasingly consider learning a ton of intricate engineering knowledge as useless. Let the Ai do it, it’s horrible maybe, but it works, fine, we don’t need to dive that much. Saying this from observing the current attitude of university professors to Ai. They tell students it’s only important to know how it works, relying on the teachings of Ai.
Tech always come and go. Tech always fits human needs. It’s humans who create culture. To be timeless and obsolete-proof, you just need to be a great human, useful in society, pleasant in company, with high, purposeful goals, austere in approach, with sound principles, constant advices and a relentless, altruistic, unbending will to better society.
The fruits of such an approach is that humans reward you in different ways, giving access to whatever resources they hold. But, adopting the described approach requires not relying on people’s piggy banks. Job security, financial security comes as a by-product.
Do we aim to work or do we aim to make money? Do we aim to have money or do we aim to live pleasantly? Is a 9 to 5 living representative of the potential in a human being or is it a powerful sedative taking you on a ride till death?