I think the conclusion that a software engineer can’t find a job due to LLMs is a load of bullshit. I work as one, we are always hiring, just not rubbish candidates…
To be fair. I’ve worked with companies that would hire rubbish developers, because “more is better” and also they have no idea what they are doing.
One such company just shuttetered an entire offshored part of the company “because AI”. No transition, because “AI can handle it without a transition”
The leadership are idiots that have no idea what they are doing, but thanks to them, rubbish candidates had a career path.
Apart from that, the AI companies are taking a lot of oxygen out of the industry. Not much money left for other companies to hire even if they wanted to.
But the problem is that fresh out of college candidates are generally going to be rubbish, especially when competing against candidates in CA with skills and candidates in lower cost of living areas with a near equivalent education.
Why hire a junior programmer from Stanford at the lower half of their class when you can hire two junior programmers from the University of Warsaw?
This is what killed my love of learning programming. An llm is years beyond me since I’m a noob and it would take 5 years of learning for me to surpass it vs someone typing into it and telling it to code an entire game. Id have to look up every syntax.
Id like to get away from computers since ai has ruined it for the most part and it’d be a lot smarter to learn metal work or woodworking. But I just enjoy computing and its interesting.
Keep going on it. We’ll need programmers when the bubble pops or Claude/Copilot/whoever pull a Broadcom and locks everyone into predatory contracts.
And, really, AI is not good at code. It’s good at mimicking stuff it’s seen before. That’s why most of the use-cases the AI heads at my company point to are things like REST servers or configuration files. You know, stuff that fucking everyone has in their 21st century codebase. Once you get into the weeds and start solving novel problems, AI just hallucinates a solution.
I started my career back when everyone said that Visual Basic would make most programming jobs obsolete. Spend your time building your craft. Spend a little longer learning why and how. Worst-case scenario, you can find the flaws in AI code instead of just shrugging and committing.
I think the conclusion that a software engineer can’t find a job due to LLMs is a load of bullshit. I work as one, we are always hiring, just not rubbish candidates…
To be fair. I’ve worked with companies that would hire rubbish developers, because “more is better” and also they have no idea what they are doing.
One such company just shuttetered an entire offshored part of the company “because AI”. No transition, because “AI can handle it without a transition”
The leadership are idiots that have no idea what they are doing, but thanks to them, rubbish candidates had a career path.
Apart from that, the AI companies are taking a lot of oxygen out of the industry. Not much money left for other companies to hire even if they wanted to.
But the problem is that fresh out of college candidates are generally going to be rubbish, especially when competing against candidates in CA with skills and candidates in lower cost of living areas with a near equivalent education.
Why hire a junior programmer from Stanford at the lower half of their class when you can hire two junior programmers from the University of Warsaw?
This is what killed my love of learning programming. An llm is years beyond me since I’m a noob and it would take 5 years of learning for me to surpass it vs someone typing into it and telling it to code an entire game. Id have to look up every syntax.
Id like to get away from computers since ai has ruined it for the most part and it’d be a lot smarter to learn metal work or woodworking. But I just enjoy computing and its interesting.
Keep going on it. We’ll need programmers when the bubble pops or Claude/Copilot/whoever pull a Broadcom and locks everyone into predatory contracts.
And, really, AI is not good at code. It’s good at mimicking stuff it’s seen before. That’s why most of the use-cases the AI heads at my company point to are things like REST servers or configuration files. You know, stuff that fucking everyone has in their 21st century codebase. Once you get into the weeds and start solving novel problems, AI just hallucinates a solution.
I started my career back when everyone said that Visual Basic would make most programming jobs obsolete. Spend your time building your craft. Spend a little longer learning why and how. Worst-case scenario, you can find the flaws in AI code instead of just shrugging and committing.
Not fresh grads. My company is hiring but we demand experience.