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AI's impact on engineering roles sparks debate on future career paths

A Reddit discussion explores the future of engineering roles in the face of advanced AI capabilities like Claude's coding proficiency. Participants are considering potential new directions for engineers, moving beyond mere orchestration of AI agents. Robotics is suggested as one area where human engineering expertise might remain crucial. AI

IMPACT AI's increasing coding capabilities prompt speculation about the evolution of engineering roles beyond agent orchestration.

RANK_REASON Reddit discussion about the future of engineering roles in the context of AI capabilities.

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AI's impact on engineering roles sparks debate on future career paths

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  1. r/ClaudeAI TIER_2 English(EN) · /u/alejomos ·

    Setting aside the optimism, where would you go next as an engineer?

    <!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><p>Let's see. Claude can write code fast, and it matters less and less whether you give it a good prompt or not. Even DevOps is going to get a bit more automatic, and security will improve too. So, leaving aside the optimism a bit, and the whole &qu…