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0:50 · 12 September 2025

Why NOW is the Best Time to be a software engineer (despite AI and layoffs)

Key concepts in this video:

1. The Advantage of Perseverance in a Challenging Market

The speaker explains: because learning to code takes time and many people are distracted by instant gratification, talented software engineers who put in the work during uncertain market conditions will make amazing progress while others get left behind.

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Transcript

people are more distracted than ever. They are afraid, they are watching videos on YouTube instead of actually learning. Everybody choose to this instant gratification which coding doesn't offer. Because software engineering coding, it's a complex skill, it takes time to learn, and not many people want to do that anymore. And this is bad news for them, but it's great news for you, the talented software engineers out there, who are getting better, putting the work and staying in this industry and betting on it.