I hired a photographer at my wedding, but also every guest had a camera.
If you look at this photo and zoom in, you'll see how many lenses are pointed at us.
There were more photos taken at my wedding than at my parents'. There will be more photos taken at weddings this year than at all of the last millennia's weddings combined. But every wedding this year will still hire a photographer.
More lines of code will be written in 2026 than in the entire history of computers combined, but we're still hiring software engineers. My VP's vibe-coded dashboard is not going to replace the carefully curated codebase that my CTO assembled to scale a service to millions.
AI isn't replacing anyone.
The biggest frustration of engineers since I started in the field was becoming a "code monkey." No one has to do that anymore. Syntax is on auto-pilot. The art of engineering is a lot more than assembling syntax. My wife is a surgeon and comes home after a 14 hour day to continue charting electronic medical records. She entered the field to care for patients, not to write notes at 9pm. Now she uses an AI scribe to do her documentation.
So don't listen to the doomers. They don't have a vision of the future. They just nag.
Study radiology. Study computer science. Go to college. Don't pretend that the world is ending. It is not.
Our tools are sharper. When surgeons got sharper instruments they performed more delicate surgeries. When engineers aren't laying each line of code by hand, they'll build gigantic systems of software.
When we look at the pyramids we think, "How did they do this?" How the hell did such an unsophisticated society build such an elaborate structure then? Their tooling was simply not good. But the Eiffel Tower is as tall as 2.5 pyramids. And the Burj Khalifa is as tall as 2.5 Eiffel Towers. Today's tools for building physical structures got scary good, so we created skyscrapers and bridges at heights the ancient Egyptians couldn't imagine.
We are going to have systems of code at heights that couldn't have been imagined 200 years ago. And we're going to look back and ask, how the hell did people build the internet in 1990.
Don't let the doomers win. Not just because they're wrong but because they suck.