I said at least 5-10 years, I should have said in that time, it will shift the development roles, but not replace developers. So I still believe development will be good for a long time as a career.
Minute 6:04 is gold! 🎯 Building a portfolio and showcasing client success stories is a game-changer for freelancers-credibility and creativity all in one place!
I'm 38,I feel like a dinosaur. I've always had a passion for computers and tech. I do around an 11 hour night shift driving a truck, I'm in the gym at least 4 days a week and I'm currently taking a bootcamp course in web development I just hope its not to late.
Great points you made here, especially about micro exercises. Sitting in front of a computer, especially laptop, all day long, can take a toll on your eyes, neck, back and heart.
@@mikep9862 I completed a bootcamp back in 2022. But I continued to build projects and added them to GitHub. I also used LinkedIn as well. Yep, I am a student and will still continue to learn. Also, you should network as well
2 things to focus during age of AI for Devs: 1. Concentrate in logic, express it in natural language (English), as detail as possible. Use a text editor for this. Review your pseudo code for errors. Feed it in multiple LLMs because they are trained in different data so the results are different. Select the best or combine the best parts. Then start coding, no cut and paste please. 2. Brutally test your code, never ever deploy without proper testing. Learn to test within the context of your system. As Stefan said be healthy in mind, body and personal finance. BTW I am in to Java and Kotlin now, but still loves Ruby. 😊
0:17 I'm two years younger than you, Uncle. Lately, I've been watching a bunch of videos about the history of well-known technologies, like Windows, Facebook, computers, operating systems, and processors. It all makes much more sense to me now. I remember hearing people recommend these kinds of videos, but the truth is, once you start watching one, it leads to another, and before you know it, you've spent hours on them instead of sticking to your daily schedule. That’s why I prefer to focus on completing my work first-priorities come first! ✌️
Just got through stage 1 of 2 interviews for a software dev role.. this is significant step up from my previous first role as a WP dev in terms of the skills required, although WP dev can be super tricky and highly technical.. especially working on all the different setups out there. Am I good enough with code? hmmm... probably not without AI. :) I find I am over reliant on GPT. I find my skills have effectively evolved around AI coding. Like... I understand all the code.. arrays, functions.. etc.. but I could never code anything right from scratch without AI to help.. nothing fairly involved anyway.. and then I'm good at mending the stuff AI produces and making it work for my project. basically, I can get the job done.. with AI's help and build some fairly advanced functionality... with AI's help.. but not without it. The cool thing about AI is you can ask it what a line of code is doing.. or explain a problem that is happening and it will point you towards a method in the code.. so is sooo valuable.
0:50 "at least over 5-10 years I would imagine" What about a 20 yrs old who is just now starting Web Development as his lifetime career?? Should he not do so? And directly jump into AI/ML?? Plzz explain in detail, cause that 0:50 was very frightening to a person who is pursuing development as a career
@@LazuraMusicI wasn’t clear, I don’t think Ai will replace developers in 5-10 years, I think in that time it may become as transformative as say web tech … as it with of programming.
Currently, AI is a tool. It has not fully replaced developers yet. But it's only a matter of time before it does. No one knows when that will happen. Back in 2019, I heard people laugh at the idea that AI would one day be able to write code. In late 2022, chatGPT came out and it showed the world AI can in fact write code. A few days ago OpenAI announced o3 which outperformed some of the best human coders in the world. Most devs did not expect AI to become this good so rapidly. Do with this info with what you will.
Great video Stefan as always. After seeing the latest benchmark results of OpenAI's o3 model, I'm extremely nervous about the future of Saas Software and betting everything on software development alone.Would it not be safer for us to expand our skills to include hardware and networking, devops as there have been zero advancements in replacing these areas with AI or robots?
Hardware • Chip Design: AI tools (e.g., DeepMind for chip layout optimization). • Manufacturing: Robots assembling PCBs and performing quality control. • Data Center Management: AI-driven cooling and energy optimization (e.g., Google’s AI systems). Networking • Network Monitoring: Cisco and Juniper Networks’ AI tools for automated troubleshooting and optimization. • Traffic Management: AI-powered software-defined networking (SDN) for dynamic traffic routing. • Predictive Maintenance: AI detecting hardware failures before they occur. DevOps • CI/CD Pipelines: AI automates testing, deployment, and optimization (e.g., AWS CodeGuru). • Incident Management: Tools like Datadog and PagerDuty use AI to proactively resolve issues. • Infrastructure Management: AI-enhanced Terraform and Ansible for resource provisioning and scaling. These are some examples I got from chatGPT highlighting AI’s growing impact across all these areas.
I think I’ve officially burned myself out of frontend. I dislike the js ecosystem anyway, but trying to style projects has tipped me over the edge. 1 thing I noticed is even though my projects look crap, the functionality of the code is great.. perhaps backend would suit me better? I work in admin and I use excel, bi and sql daily, so Python seems like a great opportunity to data analytics, or data alongside backend?
What do you think about agents that Satya Nadella is talking about? He says they will replace saas and developers. Is that a just hype to rise the stocks of microsoft?
Well, if you observe UncleStef's talking points, web development is definitely not dead, but it's definitely dying at fast pace, and developers shelling out these AI tools. Dev market already massively shrunk (where are those Chinese mainlanders with h1-b visas now? Majority of them vanished, and these people had good education and went through hell for getting it), and thousands of People from FAANG companies just updated their skills (and these are smart, well paid people who'll compete with you), together with people who just graduated from top schools (Harvard, Standard etc) who are willing to be paid 0 dollars just for experience and put it in their resume
You are ready to go! Set up a portfolio site and only demo your pro projects … no hobby projects or school projects. You will likely have to do some Wordpress.
IT is dead for junior developpers. They dont recruit anymore everything is there. They dont need that much programmer or software engineers. They just need some people to maintain the legacy code.
I said at least 5-10 years, I should have said in that time, it will shift the development roles, but not replace developers. So I still believe development will be good for a long time as a career.
Minute 6:04 is gold! 🎯 Building a portfolio and showcasing client success stories is a game-changer for freelancers-credibility and creativity all in one place!
I'm 38,I feel like a dinosaur. I've always had a passion for computers and tech. I do around an 11 hour night shift driving a truck, I'm in the gym at least 4 days a week and I'm currently taking a bootcamp course in web development I just hope its not to late.
38 is young from my perspective!
hey man, I'm 39. I've noticed my whole life I've been saying I'm "too old" for stuff. Then I did it and realized I wasn't. I always think about that
You will succeed if you're consistent. I believe in you.
50s here, wish I had found Stef's channel when I was your age.
You're fine. I'm 36 and just about to get into software engineering.
Great points you made here, especially about micro exercises. Sitting in front of a computer, especially laptop, all day long, can take a toll on your eyes, neck, back and heart.
You’d be surprised how effective micro exercises are.
Merry Christmas!🌲
Merry Christmas!! 🎅
Thank you Stef🎄
Welcome!🙏
Im 35. Just landed my first dev internship for 2025. I was in IT support. The pay is less but dev is something i want to get into
That's awesome. How did you land the internship? Are you a student? Thank you. Best of luck
@mikep9862 Hi, I completed a coding bootcamp in 2022 and just continued to build my portfolio on GitHub. And I applied for that post on LinkedIn
Pay usually takes a hit when career switching, it'll go up and more over time
@@nathanielmitchell3344 true. I think I hit the top in IT support. But I needed a change now. Merry Christmas
@@mikep9862 I completed a bootcamp back in 2022. But I continued to build projects and added them to GitHub. I also used LinkedIn as well. Yep, I am a student and will still continue to learn. Also, you should network as well
you're awesome uncle stef
2 things to focus during age of AI for Devs:
1. Concentrate in logic, express it in natural language (English), as detail as possible. Use a text editor for this. Review your pseudo code for errors. Feed it in multiple LLMs because they are trained in different data so the results are different. Select the best or combine the best parts. Then start coding, no cut and paste please.
2. Brutally test your code, never ever deploy without proper testing. Learn to test within the context of your system.
As Stefan said be healthy in mind, body and personal finance. BTW I am in to Java and Kotlin now, but still loves Ruby. 😊
0:17 I'm two years younger than you, Uncle. Lately, I've been watching a bunch of videos about the history of well-known technologies, like Windows, Facebook, computers, operating systems, and processors. It all makes much more sense to me now. I remember hearing people recommend these kinds of videos, but the truth is, once you start watching one, it leads to another, and before you know it, you've spent hours on them instead of sticking to your daily schedule. That’s why I prefer to focus on completing my work first-priorities come first! ✌️
Get the work done first. Videos and reading should be supplemental to your daily activities.
@@StefanMischook ❤️
Great !!! Thank You !
Welcome 🙏
Very good. Thank you Stefan.
Just got through stage 1 of 2 interviews for a software dev role.. this is significant step up from my previous first role as a WP dev in terms of the skills required, although WP dev can be super tricky and highly technical.. especially working on all the different setups out there. Am I good enough with code? hmmm... probably not without AI. :) I find I am over reliant on GPT. I find my skills have effectively evolved around AI coding. Like... I understand all the code.. arrays, functions.. etc.. but I could never code anything right from scratch without AI to help.. nothing fairly involved anyway.. and then I'm good at mending the stuff AI produces and making it work for my project. basically, I can get the job done.. with AI's help and build some fairly advanced functionality... with AI's help.. but not without it.
The cool thing about AI is you can ask it what a line of code is doing.. or explain a problem that is happening and it will point you towards a method in the code.. so is sooo valuable.
Keep doing what you're doing... A senior that is too stubborn to use AI will get outperformed by a junior using AI.
Thank you sir, great advice. You gave me more hope. I'm learning how to code on stacks
Keep it up!
thank you !!!
I like your hat and Uncle's hat. that makes two ✌️✌️
Thanks again! Here is to 2025! 🎉
7:10 I'll also add expose the developer to old technologies ✌️
😃👍.
Uncle, I kindly request you to talk about cloud computing opportunities in your next video. Thanks
Hey Stef! How many pushups can you do at once?
0:50 "at least over 5-10 years I would imagine"
What about a 20 yrs old who is just now starting Web Development as his lifetime career??
Should he not do so? And directly jump into AI/ML??
Plzz explain in detail, cause that 0:50 was very frightening to a person who is pursuing development as a career
Learn Ai as a TOOL of development. Ai will NOT replace developers anytime soon. You’ll be fine just so long as you keep learning!
Even if you are 50 ... you still got 10-18 more years (depends on the country) until you can retire.. so yeah
@@LazuraMusicI wasn’t clear, I don’t think Ai will replace developers in 5-10 years, I think in that time it may become as transformative as say web tech … as it with of programming.
Currently, AI is a tool. It has not fully replaced developers yet. But it's only a matter of time before it does. No one knows when that will happen. Back in 2019, I heard people laugh at the idea that AI would one day be able to write code. In late 2022, chatGPT came out and it showed the world AI can in fact write code. A few days ago OpenAI announced o3 which outperformed some of the best human coders in the world. Most devs did not expect AI to become this good so rapidly. Do with this info with what you will.
Great tips! Happy holidays
Happy holidays!
Great video Stefan as always. After seeing the latest benchmark results of OpenAI's o3 model, I'm extremely nervous about the future of Saas Software and betting everything on software development alone.Would it not be safer for us to expand our skills to include hardware and networking, devops as there have been zero advancements in replacing these areas with AI or robots?
Do development for small businesses. That means web, CMS, e-commerce, social marketing and seo.
Hardware
• Chip Design: AI tools (e.g., DeepMind for chip layout optimization).
• Manufacturing: Robots assembling PCBs and performing quality control.
• Data Center Management: AI-driven cooling and energy optimization (e.g., Google’s AI systems).
Networking
• Network Monitoring: Cisco and Juniper Networks’ AI tools for automated troubleshooting and optimization.
• Traffic Management: AI-powered software-defined networking (SDN) for dynamic traffic routing.
• Predictive Maintenance: AI detecting hardware failures before they occur.
DevOps
• CI/CD Pipelines: AI automates testing, deployment, and optimization (e.g., AWS CodeGuru).
• Incident Management: Tools like Datadog and PagerDuty use AI to proactively resolve issues.
• Infrastructure Management: AI-enhanced Terraform and Ansible for resource provisioning and scaling.
These are some examples I got from chatGPT highlighting AI’s growing impact across all these areas.
That is not your best hat but your advice is still good.
I think I’ve officially burned myself out of frontend. I dislike the js ecosystem anyway, but trying to style projects has tipped me over the edge. 1 thing I noticed is even though my projects look crap, the functionality of the code is great.. perhaps backend would suit me better? I work in admin and I use excel, bi and sql daily, so Python seems like a great opportunity to data analytics, or data alongside backend?
Backend might be your thing 👍
TFSA its for canadians right? is like a Roth IRA? Merry Christmas
On which platform can I post my portfolio?
LinkedIn
What do you think about agents that Satya Nadella is talking about? He says they will replace saas and developers. Is that a just hype to rise the stocks of microsoft?
5 - 10 years is really soon for people just starting.
Could be 25 years. It’s hard to say. But don’t worry, the market will respond.
My point exactly 🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣🫣
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Well, if you observe UncleStef's talking points, web development is definitely not dead, but it's definitely dying at fast pace, and developers shelling out these AI tools. Dev market already massively shrunk (where are those Chinese mainlanders with h1-b visas now? Majority of them vanished, and these people had good education and went through hell for getting it), and thousands of People from FAANG companies just updated their skills (and these are smart, well paid people who'll compete with you), together with people who just graduated from top schools (Harvard, Standard etc) who are willing to be paid 0 dollars just for experience and put it in their resume
I have 10 months php Laravel experience. How can I start as a freelancer? I dont have the confidence feel like I cannot do it
You are ready to go! Set up a portfolio site and only demo your pro projects … no hobby projects or school projects. You will likely have to do some Wordpress.
@StefanMischook thank you for the insight ❤️
@StefanMischook could please tell me what kind of work I should look for? I don't have reactJs or any other js framework
"Won't replace engineers at least in the next 5-10 years."
"Don't worry about AI."
So worry about it in 5-10 years?
Aah I just saw your comment on top :)
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Nice view 🥹
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Except AI, this crap has been causing a lot of problems instead of solving them.
Anyway Merry Christmas.
Yep. It is likely have an inexperienced intern working for you: you have to inspect their work.
IT is dead for junior developpers. They dont recruit anymore everything is there. They dont need that much programmer or software engineers. They just need some people to maintain the legacy code.
they hire cheaper indian coders.
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