Dev on AI disruption: rapid learning beats specialization over next 5-10 years
_jaydeepkarale · x · 2026-10-16
Developer jaydeepkarale argues that in the next 5-10 years, when AI may handle many jobs, the key skill won't be any single specialization but the ability to learn rapidly and move between skills, since the landscape will be more dynamic than ever. In the quoted tweet he adds that many peers face existential anxiety about the future; software engineering is a trillion-dollar industry whose collapse would trigger a domino effect everywhere; the best approach is to work as you did 10 years ago — stay curious, own things, and let the signal-to-noise ratio improve over time.
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