Young engineers who are entering the workforce now or have entered in the last 2-3 years, if you try to look behind all the token maxxing high, are facing a grim reality right now.
I use the word “high” very much intentionally because this is how the AI subscription systems have been designed. If you are at the beginning of your career and funding your own subscriptions, then to even stay competitive, you have to keep paying every month. And it requires active flow of income just to keep your subscriptions alive as the free tiers are mostly not great.
How Open Source Can Shape Your Career and Growth as an Engineer
If you are beginning your engineering journey right about now, using AI tools that work as your second brain sounds great, and will get you through your hobby projects, maybe interviews, first few months at your job. But I would like to talk about something that will help you go through the long career you have in front of you. Technologies will come and go, but you have to move ahead regardless the technologies and tools you have in your hand. Because after a few years you will learn that writing code is effectively a tiny part of being an engineer.
