This is more of an open-ended question, but do you think there will be a sure in traditional (non-software) engineering demand, as well as software engineering in more of a hands-on hardware context?
Software engineering IMO is alive and well, we're just going faster. Job will shift with AI, but that happened with compilers, etc. Clever engineers will continue to build. Going faster could mean you mean fewer SWEs, but could also mean you just go faster and build more things. If we go faster, the next thing will be down the chain (enough compute, enough hardware to work on). Since AI has always been insanely software bottlnecked, if it goes faster yeah there will be more jobs.
Robotics works now! We should build more robots! Some of the best companies in the next decade will for sure be building some of the robots from Star Wars and the Jetsons. This will be heavy on hardware. Outside of robots, hardware will change too - no idea if Meta's glasses are the best thing, but certainly the iPhone format isn't AI native. This will be new hardware, and we'll need smart objects everywhere in our lives (car, home, etc). Will be very cool and definitely more hardware oriented.
