u/nthsense wrote (the comment Michael replied to):
How do you see the future the role of SWE evolve in the field of Software Engineering and Tech in the next 40 years?
u/michaelnovati replied · ★ FEATURED
Well Bill Gates was writing the first software for Microsoft 40/50 years ago and while EVERYTHING has changed, NOTHING has changed at the same time.
I read his new biography and the grit, curiosity, obsessive problem solving, are all human traits that were relevant then and are relevant now and will be relevant in 40 years.
40 years ago though CS degrees barely existed, and it was called an offshoot of "Math" at the time.
So 40 years from now, we're going to have "computer-adjacent gritty, curious, problem solvers" but I highly doubt we'll call them software engineers anymore.
I'm not a futurist or economist and I don't know what the problems humans we'll have in 40 years. I can imagine and guess - everything from we'll be interplanetary to we'll be extinct. But if we have problems, we'll have engineers.
It's not going to happen overnight, so I can maybe think a little sooner, like 10 years to be more practical.