Yesterday, Elon Musk acquired Cursor for $60B and claims it will completely replace human software development.
If AI eventually automates software development, what happens to the millions of software engineering and computer science graduates?
One challenge we don’t talk about enough is the transition.
Entire generations have invested years studying software engineering, expecting it to be a stable career path.
If software jobs become significantly automated, governments, universities, and companies should be thinking ahead.
That means creating pathways into hardware engineering, robotics, and other industries where human expertise is still needed.
The goal shouldn’t be to wait for displacement to happen, but to equip people with new degrees and transition pathways before it’s too late.