The Increasing Demand for Skilled Software Engineers in the Era of AI

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Software engineers with deep knowledge of infrastructure and debugging skills will be highly sought after, even with advancements in AI. As software becomes more complex, understanding what is going wrong will be crucial. Superficial coding skills will no longer be marketable, and a deeper understanding of the craft will be required. This means that entering the field will require several years of study and expertise.

Gergely Orosz is back for our annual year-end update on the tech market, writ large. How is hiring? Has AI really changed the game? What about that OpenAI fiasco?

We also talk in-depth about Gergely’s self-published book, The Software Engineer’s Guidebook, which has been four years in the making.

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