Hi everyone,

I’m at a career crossroads. I’m currently a dev in Sydney working with legacy code—high QoL, but low pay and zero growth. I just got a Senior Automation offer with a much higher salary, but it requires a 40m commute 3x/week.

With AI transforming the industry, is returning to the automation niche a mistake, or should I push into modern software dev to stay employable? I'd love to hear from those working with AI: is automation still a safe bet, or is it time to pivot?

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Depends on you. Age, home or family life and where you want to go.
I fell into IT and done well. Now in a hybrid role where I choose whether to go into the office. That's important to me as it gives me flexibility and my boss gives me autonomy, recognition and time for mastery. Work is just work. I'm a SQL master, have picked up VBA well enough to kill off most of it with another new language to be, Power Query, and getting proficiency with the Power Bi suite. AI may be great. Right now there is going to be a nice vacuum left with legacy systems to migrate from. Maybe like the COBOL bubble back in the day. With 15 years left before I retire I think I'll just double down on what's I've done and find new niches that suit me. I think I would have done the same thing years ago. I like getting food at stuff and I like slow moving tech rather than jumping onto the latest bandwagon and never being great at anything. Talking to people and getting stuff done for them without getting techy (they don't care) is where I'm at. Best tech for the requirement right now, failing fast, growing slowly but surely to not leave legacy systems. So good conversations, documentation, clean code, manageable builds. Version 1.0 may be heavy but it's decisive, with good patterns and dynamically generated self building code where possible. Then iterating with very small improvements. I ramble. Follow thee best boss, work is irrelevant

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Honestly I think you should follow your heart.
Jobs are jobs but what you want to do is the core drive and these days there are no such thing as a permanent safe position.

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I have to agree with Software Engineer 1 — right now, jobs are hard to come by. If your current role doesn’t offer good pay or growth, it’s definitely time to explore other opportunities. It sounds like you already have a great one in front of you.

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