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[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

Skilled developers can easily transition to another field of software engineering.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Even in 2024, there's still a lot of non-software (automotive) engineering involved in building a car -- even an electric one.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

SDA - software defined automobile

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Highway infrastructure as code

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Stop I'm unironically excited for this distant possibility.

I'm already impressed by how much the UI for cars have been separatedfromm mechanical systems.

Electric cars have a lot more tunability from a software view too. Clearly there is a plenty of real world between the chips and where the rubber meets the road too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

So I get a free car and the owner gets to keep the original? Like hell I wouldn't.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago
[–] [email protected] 13 points 9 months ago

Yeah but a car is mostly made of engines and bolts and wheels and stuff like that, you know.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

No one can become a skilled ML/AI dev overnight. That will still take a year or two or more of working with it daily. If you transition to a new field you basically become a junior dev all over again for a while. Domain knowledge is a big part of being a good programmer.