Last Updated on December 22, 2025 by stlplace
In the news:
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. – The New York Times (this one seems widely circulated)
A linkedIn post (thread, or rant 🙂
Also in the FB group –
https://www.facebook.com/groups/1506637529662997/search/?q=%20AI%20career
https://www.facebook.com/groups/GrownandFlownParents/permalink/4543960429264010
One story I heard at Rolla
Honeywell CEO (or maybe Allied Signal CEO, Allied Signal is now a subsidiary of Honeywell, AS was HQ’ed in Kansas City: he may only work for one company his whole career; while we (my generation, the gen X) may have 7 jobs throughout our career (I have 10 so far, I think – Minjie Xu | LinkedIn).
Also, this one – https://thestillwandering.substack.com/p/the-death-of-the-corporate-job?r=44469&utm_medium=ios&triedRedirect=true “The death of the corporate job”
I recorded a short 7 to 8 minutes video for this too – my journey – pivotal points? Choose career and during career. Here is the video – My colleague and engineering career journey
Again from Linkedin
Since 2023, I have kept on testing AI capabilities, and in 2025, AI has become scary good.
I understand why some might be afraid of AI getting better and better. It’s understandable, yet not the right attitude. There’s a lot of upside in learning how to get the best out of all these powerful tools.
As a software developer, we are students for life. We’ve always needed to reinvent ourselves and learn better ways to do our job. Embracing AI is just business as usual.
That’s exactly why I got into IT in the first place. If I wanted a boring job, I’d have chosen a totally different field 20 years ago.
Po-Shen Loh
Po-Shen Loh interview on AI 🤖 at YT – The Only Trait for Success in the AI Era—How to Build It | Carnegie Mellon University Po-Shen Loh (the key is to find solutions for new problems, not the good old leetcode exercise which is basically a memorization of many popular algorithms and data structures in the big tech or computer science arena’s code base).
My comment or disclaimer: we cannot predict the future…