There's another side to this.
This means there's a lot of programmers who are available to work on other things. It's an opportunity for businesses to start and new programs to be made.
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I am going to gleefully watch some of those companies burn when seniors retire or move on and there is no one left with enough experience to supervise AI code or beginner level coders.
Exactly, nobody is investing in their to-be seniors and dev culture.
Expecting ai-slop to make the difference is a fairy tale told to investors and board members.
I am not against any of our new devs (or myself, a longtime dev) using ai generated code but I expect them to understand it so they can fix it and build their skillsets. I tell them that renting their dev skills from a machine will do them no favors.
Betcha wish ya'd fucking unionised now.
Ahh reminds me of when I was a fresh CS grad working at Dominos
Now they get to spend the next 5-10 years realizing they are slaves and everything adults have told them about the economy, work, and fairness was cope from those adult slaves.
What do you do now?
System Admin
I wanted to make videogames originally. :/
As a dev with several close friends who have combined decades of game development - you’re not missing out much. The pay isn’t as good as it needs to be for that amount of crunch, the big companies have so many petty squabbles and politics, and it’s a good road to burn-out. The engines have gotten good enough that making games is a matter of spending the time at night/weekends. Not glamorous, but can be fun and rewarding, even if you never ship.
Yeah i was willing to do it if it was livable because it was fun for me.
But it's like getting a CS degree to be a starving artist.
Yeah that's insanely competitive. I got a friend who wants to do game dev and has was struggling for some time.
Kill your masters
Economists and industry executives say the hiring slowdown is also tied to post-pandemic overstaffing, aggressive cost-cutting, high interest rates and widespread hiring freezes.
Vs
a tiktok video about overhyped topic
News editors: Let's go ahead and publish another "news" article about a TikTok video on an overhyped topic!
The “journalist” credited’s bio literally says he is addicted to twitter as some kind of base of honor.
They're just trying to make AI sound successful, just like the overlords want them to.
I am more inclined to think they just want ragebait articles and AI is a current easy target
Yeah, these types of stories are advertisements directed at the landlord class. "Look, AI means fewer icky employees to have to put up with! At last, business without labor!"
Yeah this article is functionally an ad for coderabbit.
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Almost all companies deploying generative AI don't see their revenue change significantly. AI is not the money maker people claimed it was going to be.
AI is not the money maker people claimed it was going to be.
When people make claims about what "AI" is going to do in the future they're talking about Artificial General Intelligence - not Large Language Models.
While I agree with you, its that very misunderstanding that bosses and owners have, and they'll fire regular folks and replace with ai. They may suffer lower quality and even catastrophic failures but it will take time for them to realise and rehire people. All those regular folks will be out of work during that time.
Don’t believe everything you read in the NYPost.
Don't believe anything you read there.
Well, now they know what it's like to have a bachelor's degree in any other field. Welcome to the club.
If you want a guaranteed job right away, go into medicine, or plumbing, those are safe bets. I expect people will always get sick and need to shit.
Once the peasants are all replaced by AI they won't need those jobs either
Were quite a ways off from technician jobs get replaced at scale. Like some VC cunt can dream but good luck.
The peasants will still shit, count on it.
Besides, let's not pretend this "AI replacing us all" narrative has any real lasting power. We see the same story constantly, company replaces workers with AI, company regrets it later. This AI sucks, it's not there yet. You don't really have to worry about it long term.
Don't mistake the weather for the climate.
Why should I even try? If the job market is this bad. I've been struggling with this question.
if you start studying now, chances are the market will have improved when you graduate.
How was the interview? Did they pull questions from HackerRank?
Asking for me, because I’m an old CS grad in a bad job market.
The “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” folks ordering a burrito. Bootstrap?
If I pick myself up by the bootstrap, am I technically floating?
That was the original joke.
Coding AI is like hold my beer. Folding an over priced burrito not so much.
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