IT Revolution in 2023-24: how to learn, how to hire, business transformation, future professions, AI, GPT Video: https://youtu.be/hYbF3IlMovE

1. IT Revolution in 2023-24
how to learn, how to hire
business transformation
future professions
Timur Shemsedinov
github.com/tshemsedinov
Chief Software Architect at Metarhia, CTO at Salucyber
Lecturer at Kiev Polytechnic Institute & Kiev School of Economics

2. Revolutionary changes in IT are coming
Crisis background
● AI
● Hiring
● Technologies
● Education
● Vendor lock-in
● Vision crisis

3. AI anxiety
● We do not need juniors for about 3-4 years
● Now AI (ChatGPT, Copilot) can replace middle
● Seniors will be next…
● In next 5 years companies will look like:
CTO, Architect, Principal engineer,
Product owner, a few new professions…

4. Hiring
● High demand for qualified engineers
● Low demand for beginners
● Job description are broken: hype, all, templates
● CVs are broken: hype, fake, self overestimation
● Interviews are broken: alg., sys design, details

5. Education
● Public schools
● Colleges
● Universities
● IT Schools
● Programming courses

6. Psychology problems
● Low motivation
● Alienation
● Escape: domain, responsibility, proactivity
● Weak risk and time estimation / management
● IT people are totally toxic
● Infected with rudeness, cynicism, indifference

7. Profanation in IS
● Forms
● Models
● APIs

8. Information System Engineer Roadmap
Programming
Fundamentals
Asynchronous
programming
Parallel
programming
Node.js
Multi-paradigm
programming
GRASP SOLID
System Prog.
Engineer
Domain logic
Engineer
Back-end
Engineer
Front-end
Engineer
Databases
Architecture
Network protocols
GoF
OOP
Enterprise
Inf. Sys.
Metaprogramming
Backend
Web Development
(HTML+CSS)
Frontend
Web
Applications
Browser API

9. Software
Engineer
Broad specialty

10. Software
Engineer
Split into two professions
System
programming
Applied
programming

11. System
Software
Engineer
Higher-code
Domain
Hacker
Сompletely different professions
10%

12. Information System Engineer Roadmap
Programming
Fundamentals
Asynchronous
programming
Parallel
programming
Node.js
Multi-paradigm
programming
GRASP SOLID
System Prog.
Engineer
Domain logic
Engineer
Back-end
Engineer
Front-end
Engineer
Databases
Architecture
Network protocols
GoF
OOP
Enterprise
Inf. Sys.
Metaprogramming
Backend
Web Development
(HTML+CSS)
Frontend
Web
Applications
Browser API

13. Higher-code hard skills Roadmap
Programming
Fundamentals
minimum
Asynchronous
programming
minimum
Higher-code
Hacker
Database
modelling
Enterprise
Architecture
Templates

14. Higher-code Roadmap
42% Domain and business
25% Culture, psychology and communications
15% System integration, digital transformation
7% Architecture, devops, clouds, system design
5% Cybersecurity, cryptography, networks, db
3% Basics of programming + 2% Work with AI
1% Low-code and no-code tools

15. New work and education approach
● Learn while working on real projects
● Mentoring culture
● Knowledge transfer traditions
● Free software practices
● Openness to dialogue
● Kindness
● Decision validation

16. New work and education approach
● Push SE beginners to reinvent
● While prevent NIH for higher-coders in products
● Prepare ambitious difficult and complex
● Highlight and compare negative and positive
● Reflection: try to understand mythology and
magical thinking hidden behind rationalizations

17. Сonclusions
● Do not close in yourself, unite, change, be flexible
● New courses:
1. CTO, Architect, Principal engineer
2. Higher-code domain hacker
● Optimize TTM and cut risks and budgets:
1. Shared CTO & specialists, communities
2. Concentrate on domain and business