This article provides a comprehensive guide for career change into AI for individuals over 50, dispelling the notion that AI threatens senior professionals. It discusses how prior experience is a superpower, accessible AI careers, and a detailed action plan.
The author reflects on a profound career shift, moving from a passion for writing code from scratch to a total focus on optimizing and reviewing AI. This transition resulted in a perceived greater difficulty when attempting to return to traditional coding.
After twelve years of coding, the author experienced severe burnout, contemplating a career change to something like welding. Despite being an early adopter of AI tools like GPT-3, the traditional coding work had become unbearable.