Survival guide for software engineers in the AI era (2026)
Right now it's a scary time to be a software engineer – AI coding tools are improving rapidly, and there's so much talk about software engineers being replaced.
As an AI infrastructure engineer at Meta, I'm surrounded by the AI transformation daily, and I think software engineers can actually be well-positioned over the next decade by focusing on the right things.
That's why in this video, I'm sharing my survival guide of 5 actionable things I'm personally doing to not just survive the AI era, but come out ahead.
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0:00 - Intro
0:31 - Is AI going to replace software engineers?
1:59 - Why software engineers are well-positioned
4:18 - Actionable survival guide
8:41 - Outro
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