I think robotics is going to be the next the thing that I would push programmers to concentrate on
Political shifts probably mean that manufacturing will be onshoring and automating. Software in the last 3 decades has basically mirrored like Conway's law management structures without source manufacturing elsewhere.
The next economy will have a lot more near shored manufacturing. And that means hardware, robotics and hardware software boundaries
The real world/physical materials is also a little bit more resistant to AI replacement
Robotics have been around forever, it's only by being AI driven will it gain interest and funding. No one wants to laboriously hand write gcode to actuate a motor to move an arm. People want to ask the robot maid to make coffee for them in a regular human coffee making fashion. A French press or a pour over or whatever. Traditional programming hasn't been able to achieve that in the decades it's been around, so the only way robotics is getting interesting (which it is) is the addition of AI/ML models.
Political shifts probably mean that manufacturing will be onshoring and automating. Software in the last 3 decades has basically mirrored like Conway's law management structures without source manufacturing elsewhere.
The next economy will have a lot more near shored manufacturing. And that means hardware, robotics and hardware software boundaries
The real world/physical materials is also a little bit more resistant to AI replacement