How impactful is AI to your profession?

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Summary

A veteran software engineer reflects on AI's disruptive potential across professions including bioengineering, law, and accounting, expressing concern about the accelerating changes.

I've been a software engineer for coming up on 30 years now. I live in Claude every day, and have for the past year. I am well aware of the massive disruption coming for software engineering (I mean, we're already in it, but things are only going to get wilder) I'm just curious as to the impact to other professions. Bioengineering, mechanical engineering, lawyers, accounts, anything. Is the level of impact similar, and are you as concerned as I am as to where this is all heading?
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