Shock content: programmers suddenly had to learn 😱

Business Insider published a revealing article: developers are complaining that they have to spend 20+ hours a week learning new AI tools to stay relevant in the market.

From mid-level and senior backend developers, they now expect not just CRUD, but:
▫️ Understanding of Model Context Protocol (MCP) and the ability to write servers for it.
▫️ Architecture of RAG pipelines that produce relevant context rather than hallucinating from the first crooked embedding.
▫️ Orchestration of multi-agent systems.

Bare backend without intelligent wrapping is rapidly losing added value. Quote from the article:
Backend engineering is now going to transition into AI engineering


I'll let you in on a scary secret that for some reason has been forgotten: IT has always been about endless learning. It's just that now the pay for it is relatively not as high 🌚