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As a career software engineer, I think you're right to ask the question.
I'm going to give an answer that will get me downvoted to hell, but you deserve to hear it.
Your PhD is extremely useful in specific cases regardless of AI slop-coding existing. With the caveat that you may need to be open to leveraging AI tooling to go faster.
I work with a few PhDs, smart people, sharp people, amazing ideas, but the things they think of and approaches they try are not something your AI/LLM is going to just magically always suggest. Even if it does, it likely won't be contextually correct or proper for the situation.
A hybrid approach of someone with the intelligence to steer LLMs towards a goal and who understands the right ways to prompt to achieve or test that goal quickly is valuable.
I don't know you, haven't met you, don't know your actual technical knowledge - but assuming that stuff all checked out it is exactly the type of thing some companies I've worked for or work for would hire around.
Unfortunately, the roles that appreciate someone like you are fewer and further between, but they exist and they're in-demand based on what I've seen.
I agree but have downvoted this in order to support your prophecy. /s
dunno why you would get downvoted, i think alot of people agree with your assesment.
Sane people do. But the site is filled with AI haters who press downvote as soon as someone recommends using AI for Amy thing whatsoever.
Who's Amy?
Auto correct for any
No! I wanna know who Amy is! She deserves a background story!
Amy is 'any' in witness protection. The downvoters put her there."