Ever been in a situation where you landed a software engineering job with a particular tech stack, mastered it, switched to another company with a different stack, nailed that too, and then found yourself in a third company that used the original stack? Now, you suddenly sense that your hard-earned acumen in that initial stack has not only atrophied over the years but also a portion, or all of it, has become irrelevant, making it a bit of a struggle to catch up with the latest changes.
The landscape is changing too fast for the traditional training to keep up. You need to train to learn new things constantly now. Having a diversified skill set that sets you apart will become a mandatory requirement. Aaron Jack has recently touched on this topic. AI development is still piping hot. People with cognitive science backgrounds, social science, or another type of psychology, plus mathematics that can actually code might have it better. Education may have to change and become more flexible too.
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