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Engineer Feedback on Careers and AI
The answer, “We are replacing staff using AI,” was new this year. We’re happy to note that the numbers are very low at this point, at least from an engineering perspective.
Thoughts on AI and Engineering Careers
AI may be having some major negative repercussions for some jobs. However, for engineering and embedded programming jobs it appears to have less of a negative impact, at least with respect to salary and careers. I suspect that other issues such as wars, tariffs, and political issues will have a more direct impact than AI in the near term.
In the long term, the ways in which AI will help and how engineers, developers, and programmers adapt to the support or distraction that AI can deliver is still unclear. This is especially true given the financial nature of AI at this point, with a considerable number of people using subsidized AI support at least when it comes to LLMs via chatbots. It’s dangerous to assume that this support will continue or low-cost options will be able to replace this support.
The cost of AI, as well as its effectiveness, will impinge on engineering and embedded designers’ careers more over time. but that’s for next year’s survey. In the meantime, leave a comment and let us know what you think.
