Hey, what’s up, John Sonmez from simpleprogrammer.com.
I got this really long email from Roberto and he’s really concerned and really upset
here.
I’m not going to read the whole email because it’s really long but I’m going to summarize
it in just one statement here.
It would be, “Will we all become useless in a few decades?
Will computers take over my job?”
Yes, Roberto, you’re screwed.
We’re all screwed.
That’s it.
End of video.
No, just kidding.
Yes, they will take over your job to some degree.
It’s going to become—I mean that’s inevitable, right?
So we get more levels of intelligence, right?
Uber drivers are the ones who should really be scared because computers are going to take
over their jobs real quick and it’s just going to be like—there’s going to be no
hope for cab drivers or Uber drivers.
There’s going to be a lot of professions where computers absolutely take over the job.
We’ve seen it happen in the past, right?
It doesn’t make sense for a lot of jobs to exist anymore.
If you’re career ambitions are that you are going to take orders at McDonalds, sorry,
that’s probably not going to last another 5 years as well.
You might want to change professions and not go with the McDonalds route, but there’s
a lot of these jobs.
Software development is one that you might say, “Well, John, obviously no one is going
to be able to—computer is not going to be able to do that.”
To some degree it is and we’re seeing the tools getting more and more advanced.
What ends up happening when computers take over jobs is it’s not that the jobs totally
disappear, it’s just that those people, the skills, different skills become important
and new jobs open up.
That’s always happened, right?
When computers start taking over jobs, when factories and machines start taking over our
factory workers and manual assembly jobs what ended up happening was now CAD opened up and
people designed those machines and factories and wrote code.
This whole software development field, how old is it, right?
Every single company has a software developer now and it’s just going to increase.
There’s going to be more and more and more code.
A lot of that is eventually going to get automated.
What I’m saying is that this whole field of software development just appeared out
of—no one would have predicted this 80 years ago because there wasn’t even a computer.
My point really is this is don’t think, “Oh, a computer is going to take over my
job, I shouldn’t get into software development” because that’s not the right way to think.
The right way to think is I’m going to—where am I going to go next and how am I going to
develop skills that are going to be timeless and valuable?
That’s why I focus so much on—if you’re listening to this video, this channel, you’re
obviously a software developer that cares more about just writing code, because I’m
not talking about writing code very much here, I’m talking about life and social skills
and being productive and all the type of things that are going to make you successful as a
person.
Because if you become a well rounded person, if you become successful in these areas of
your life, if you have these attributes it doesn’t matter what desert they drop you
off on, you’re going to succeed, you’re going to be okay.
You’re going to figure it out.
You’re going to pull out your hunting knife and you’re going to gut some lizard and
eat its guts, right?
You’re going to be well equipped for whatever happens.
That’s the thing.
Again, for software developer specifically I created a course called, How To Market Yourself
As A Software Developer and I think that’s a really valuable thing to be able to market
yourself and that’s going to differentiate you from a lot of developers that are out
there.
One of the things that’s going to happen is that low level, the people who are going
to get their legs bitten off by zombies first are going to be the software developers that
just write code, all they do is write code.
You give them a spec and they write code.
Don’t be that.
Be the person who can do that but who also understands the architecture and the engineering
of it who can put things together.
Not only that, who can manage a team, who can communicate, communicate requirements,
who can communicate and understand how software gets built.
Those people, their legs are a little bit higher up.
The zombies aren’t going to bite their legs off right away.
They’re eventually going to get absorbed and then it will be a next higher level up.
Always be at least one step up the ladder from where the danger zone is.
As long as you do that you’re going to be okay.
If you’re just hanging out, if you just think you’re just going to be a “programmer”
and you’re just going to write code forever that will get automated at some—I don’t
know when it will happen, but already it’s getting outsourced to the point where you
can get coders that can write good code for $10 an hour.
Again, you want to develop more skills than just that.
You want to start developing some business skills.
You want to develop social skills and communication skills.
You want to develop engineering and architecture skills.
Those are the things that are going to make you more valuable in the career field and
then in life in general just being an adaptable person, being someone who can figure things
out and learning to learn, that’s another one.
If you can learn anything and you can learn quickly, I’ve got a course on that as well,
10 Steps To Learn Anything Quickly, that’s going to help you to be able to keep up with
whatever happens.
You can’t predict it all.
You can’t worry so much about the future that you don’t ever do anything because
you’re afraid computers are going to steal your job.
They eventually will but you’re going to move up and you’re going to go to another
job as long as you’re continually learning.
Anyway, good question, don’t have to—calm down, don’t panic so much.
Don’t worry.
Everyone thinks that the whole—singularity is going to come and we’re all going to
just like—computers are going to kills us, terminator.
Maybe if it happens you’re not going to prevent it so no sense worrying about it.
Have a good time.
Enjoy life.
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