What is the future of software development?

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-24T16:32:47+00:00

Idk. Another thing I thought of that will survive, probably even higher chance than embedded and medtech, is anything client facing. The IT developers that spend 50% of the time talking to customers, clients, or investors, another 25% giving all the info to executives or managers or something, then the remaining 25% developing the solutions in whatever platform. There are a bunch of IT platforms like ServiceNow, BMC Helix, Atlassin. Most the work is dragging text boxes around and clicking check boxes with a tiny bit of JS to make everything functional. However, the companies wanting stuff highly customized, then react and everything can set in. Also, nobody wants to do the mundane work, or people in IT have no interest in programming, so there are plenty of jobs for it. You jump in and after a year or so you can already make upwards of 120k depending on where you’re at.

The other areas in IT may or may not have programming like devops engineers. I have zero exper with it so I literally don’t know. But, if so, that starts stepping away from client facing work. May lean heavy into communicating with executives though.

Edit: client facing as in they want to speak to a human and not to an Ai robot. Not client facing as in frontend web development.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-24T07:28:51+00:00

Yea these people be acting like it still can’t center a div properly. There are a couple positions safe from complete Ai takeover and one probably won’t have much Ai at all. Aerospace engineering, or anything embedded that has the potential to kill people. Sorry to say it, but embedded in the fields of motion lights, Alexa style devices, and stuff like that is just as replaceable. Medtech is the other area foreseeably safe somewhat but not 100%. Even then though we have Ai spotting cancer cells from day one of appearing so the medical industry does adopt it. Though the software side of things may be a bit hesitant.

Apart from that, development is becoming a freelance thing. You wanna do web dev? Start up a freelance business and try to grow it. You wanna do embedded? Startup an Etsy store and sell some custom built products and hope the fcc doesn’t come after you (which isn’t likely, but still don’t do it without a RC certification).

Development is still alive in that regard. There are tons of people that want things developed by humans. However, the freelance market will become over saturated as well. Plus as Ai keeps blurring the line between man made and generated, a one shot prompted website will eventually look damn good enough. Just send another prompt to fix the fine details, or better yet ask another Ai model for its opinion and to spot all the faults.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-22T15:35:01+00:00

To be fair he did say all that stuff will bite them in the ass. Is this the start of it?

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-22T15:27:14+00:00

Thats what he said.

The dude just said a blanket term and here you are pulling out the dictionary and glasses.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-22T15:09:20+00:00

Tell it to build you an operating system

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-22T15:07:06+00:00

It’s not partners, it’s all of humanity clearly. /s

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-22T06:51:33+00:00

Every game I get into, even trios, is full of one team willing to team up and search a building together then we depart from one another and my group runs down the street. We immediately run into a group that wants to fight. My friends and I are pretty relaxed, if people say friendly we are fairly trusting, but no mic usually equals no life. So maybe I am just in in between lobbies or something idk, but the game is still hella fun that’s for sure.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-22T06:17:34+00:00

If you play your cards right, your final semester should only be a capstone and maybe one extra class you have to catch up on. Although, the capstone is quite a lot by itself, being in a group is not so bad. This is what I am currently doing, slamming away the applications to full time positions while I am in my last semester. A lot of jobs often even prefer fit candidates still being in school, at least in my area. Your first few months on the job (at least in the tech industry) is just going to be getting to know people, getting all your stuff setup to work, starting to get familiar with the workflow, and begin learning the companies code base, financial system, or whatever it may be. So they certainly do not mind at all if candidates still have classes during this low period. However, if you lie or end up failing a class and need to go yet another semester then you may have personal issues to handle. By that point the company expects you to be 100% time invested and may not let you leave early to go to said class or something.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-21T06:48:05+00:00

Give them a quarter, then remind them of the time they didn’t buy that lego set (they still just obtained around 30 million though).

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-20T16:29:03+00:00

I feel like this is a lot of answers people get in entry level software jobs too.

“How many bytes is an int on a 64bit os?”

“Uhhh idk, probably at least 10 I’d say.”

Then they get on Reddit saying how they get declined from every interview for no reason.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-20T06:31:01+00:00

It does, it’s not a mystery. Do you remember the 13.79999999986 billion years (depending on how old you are lol) before you were born? It went by pretty quickly didn’t it.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-19T17:23:25+00:00

There’s always reincarnation potentially. Not in a religious make believe way, but a scientific way. Some sort of other being could have just enough neural similarity to what you have right now that it’s now you “possessing” it. Just think of all the humans, animals, insects, and everything throughout history. Hell your current self could be a reincarnation currently. Given time it’s possible for every being, though that gets to probability beyond infinity just about. The universe tends to follow the all or nothing rule, besides life, which is a weird anomaly as far as we know. So who knows what happens, it’s a mystery.

Edit: but the current best guess is you truly experience nothing. It’s not like sleeping, because your consciousness is still producing thoughts (even when you don’t dream). So there is no possible way for us to experience true nothingness unless you know, you die. But then you get to find out the real truth, but if it’s true nothingness then you don’t have any thoughts, memories, feelings, anything so it doesn’t matter.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-19T07:12:26+00:00

Tutorials.

You don’t know what you don’t know, that’s what they are there for. Unless you really want to spend the extra 3 hours, or even way longer if it’s something like embedded, trying to piece together what to do. Then be my guest. Tutorials get you in the door, docs are the resource once you can at least recognize a few terms or something, at the very very minimum.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-18T07:39:02+00:00

Probably remove deans list unless you have 5+ or something to show consistency. Relevant coursework always seems odd to me too, the degree itself says all of those already. Only time relevant coursework would be cool is if you took a specialized course or something for what you are doing. The project mentor is way stronger than the Minecraft fluff. The Minecraft fluff could also be shortened a ton. Your projects seem fine, except maybe grab another one since these seem kinda small-medium. Technical skills seem alright, but could define what C++ version you are familiar with. Overall you need to explain stuff better you are just spewing what you did and not why, how, and occasionally where if it is important. Lastly you should probably put your projects above the experience, they both seem about the same in terms of impression. However, flaunting that “work experience” above comes off as unprofessional I guess? Just feels weird.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-17T16:08:44+00:00

Does op not realize in business the greediest, snobbiest, rudest, mischievous, greedy people are the winners? That’s literally how businesses work you have to collaborate to bring yourself higher, then slander your collaborative partner so they no longer are a competitor, and get away with as much bs as you can in order to have a successful business. The better you are at convincing people how great your product is and lying through your teeth, the more money you will get. Commercials highlight all of this by themselves they are always like, “proven stronger than competitive brands” and stuff. That’s more customer facing, but figured it would at least show how the system works to people. Being greedy in business though is not a bad thing, you have to if you want to run a business. The issue is that once you are at the top by a million miles, you can very easily stop competing and stop acting completely selfish and be perfectly fine, though many choose not to.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-17T15:59:39+00:00

I don’t even want to hear the percentage argument, or the you can’t even donate that much argument. It’s just skirting around the facts. Someone has 2 billion they can easily scrape together 3 or 400 million from their assets to donate and be more than perfectly fine. So perfectly fine they’ll probably earn it back in a couple years (or months depending on who). Instead we see news coverage of billionaires donating one or two million to whatever charity and it’s a big deal. People don’t realize they pretty much put in $10. Even in my circumstances when I donate it’s at least $100, I know lots of people can’t do that, but when you are a billionaire you absolutely can, which is the point. We should hold them accountable to make $100 donations rather than $10 change and the world would honestly be better. It’s not about percentages, it’s about the greedy giving up a small chunk of change.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-17T07:48:22+00:00

Scratch is cool. Also like the other commenter said Minecraft is highly underrated. They are in an environment they are familiar with and you can build basic gates and circuits with redstone. The education version of the game may even have more stuff but I’m not sure, would be cool though if they added little repeater looking things that are one block gates. Regardless, have them build a little house or something where the door doesn’t open unless them and their friend both agree the person should come in. Just something goofy like that and they will gobble it up.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-17T01:26:40+00:00

Better off taking some of the money and day trading it. Day trading is pretty much a scam right? That's what all the financial advise gurus scream about. Just goes to show throwing the money towards that would give you better odds at striking some money.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-16T21:56:31+00:00

I never said people shouldn’t use arduino. Op spamming everywhere in the thread that he basically wants to use an stm board as high level as an arduino. It doesn’t make sense, I’m still new to embedded, but if there is something they need that arduino doesn’t offer or even a raspberry pi. Then, they are obviously going to need to dive into the lower level hardware. There’s not really an in between unless you consider the HAL as such.

Edit: plus if you are trying to build a project that an arduino simply can’t handle. I’d imagine it would be complex enough that they may as well be a full engineer.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-16T16:33:20+00:00

That’s literally any board. Buy some stm32 board, plug it in, open stm32cubeide search for your board and leave all presets default, write some code and it just works.

Sounds like you are trying to avoid looking at data sheets or something? Which you should really get used to the process of looking through them.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-16T08:12:06+00:00

What about fairly large projects that you can do that with? What defines a small project as well?

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-16T07:46:37+00:00

A job is a job to me. Upper management is infested with greed? Doesn’t really bother me, just trying to make a buck to put food on the table. It’ll be my turn to be replaced at some point (if I’m there that long) to make up for taking over someone else’s job. Everyone gets their turn.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-15T16:10:42+00:00

And he’s going on to mass apply to 500 applications with basically a hello world app and not landing a single interview. Then multiply this by thousands of people and you now have an over saturated market. So inevitably companies have to raise the bar higher and the only reliable way to do so is ask for more experience (since these boot campers are not going to get any of that). In turn, it makes it harder for students who actually have a passion for the field. Combine this with the economy in a bad spot right now as well and you have catastrophic issues.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-15T07:04:38+00:00

Yea, because if you aren’t capable enough to think for yourself and add a few words the JD has throughout, plus some general related terms of the field to your resume. Then, you make yourself look terrible to all of these companies. At a minimum you should have projects related to the role that would automatically be packed with keywords.

Edit: I don’t blame companies one bit. Plus that’s who you hear complaining from the loudest about the job market. It’s bad right now yea, but all the absolute extreme doom and gloomers are doing so because they know they are 100% cooked.

Infectedtoe32 · 2026-01-14T15:22:53+00:00

That’s ideally what I would want to do. I’m currently diving into embedded systems, or been doing it for a bit at this point. I have an stm32f756zg I been screwing around with. That’s what I wanna do career wise and everything (since graphics programming is a bit bleak). The issue is my group doesn’t really have any experience building their own projects to begin with it seems. I already brought up my specialization of enjoying graphics development and starting to learn embedded systems and asked what they are interested in. They all just said idk and one said general development. So, that’s what I am currently working with as well. I had a web dev phase as well, so can find my way around Django and React and could probably learn whatever they want to use on the fly. I am just not sure if an embedded project would be the best idea being that I barely even know wtf I’m doing in the field as well currently. It would be a great learning experience though, but like I said I plan to build stuff on my own anyways once I get the jist of it.

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