- Tech workers are taking to Blind to discuss the impact of AI on the future of software engineering.
- Some say they’re “anxious” about AI replacing their jobs and wonder if it’s the end of a “golden age.”
- AI has already begun to threaten the job security of software engineers.
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Tech workers are beginning to panic about the possibility that AI is coming for their jobs.
Since ChatGPT captured headlines late last year, workers have taken to the anonymous networking site Blind to question whether AI will make their jobs obsolete. Software engineers on the site, which requires users to verify their employee email addresses, have written dozens of posts on the issue — from polls on when AI will replace them to admissions that the “golden age is over.”
Insider did not independently verify the employment of users cited in this story.
“Software engineering is a dying profession,” a Microsoft engineer wrote in a Blind post from earlier this week, titled “Face it, golden age is over.”
“And since GPT is already great at writing its own prompts, you’re up the creek without a paddle,” they added.
The post generated nearly 500 replies, from one user claiming “the professi
