small rant incoming
I work for a company that it’s mostly hardware focused, but we do ship some software for the final consumer including drivers and programs, to make use of said hardware.
While I am not in the software department, I held some SWE positions in previous companies for over a decade, our software isn’t very complex and I do know most of it pretty well.
Our employee just announced a new AI-only development cycle, they want all code submissions and reviews to be exclusively done by claude, effectively ending ownership of the code being shipped to customers. This is absolute madness.
Today, I received an email scheduling a workshop on how to integrate claude into vscode and how to work with the new gitflow, namely removing our authorship from commits and having al code reviews done by a LLM now.
I am just baffled at the decision.
edit: wow I’m a bit overwhelmed by the response, I did read all of you. Thanks!
I’ve been looking for a job for the past 6 months. Every interview I had (more than 50) hinted that some Claude or Copilot was being used more and more. Some companies even want to hire “junior AI engineer.” How the fuck can you hire a junior with a non-existing degree and that knows nothing about a technology so recent?
I found one and only one company who officially rejects AI, and I hope they’ll hire me.
those companies likely use AI to screen out peoples AI resumes too.
Absolutely. They first ask you to fill an “internal resume” that is automatically filled by AI from your PDF, then is it parsed by an “ATS grader” to give you good or bad grades (I’ve seen it done by a friend of mine). It allows HR to reject most people quickly without reading or doing any kind of work.
I don’t blame them though, most fullstack job offers have up to 200 applicants for any kind of job or requirement. It’s: AI job offer -> 200 AI fake resume -> AI ATS to reject people.
or they just ignore the first few dozen resume, and just choose one they like. they originally use software to do this before AI, i can imagine it does it more faster, and haphazardly. i wouldnt be surprised if that ATS system, is just randomly doing it too. if like 50 people have too similar in experiences, likely it might choose those 50 to discard. im curious what did ATS metrics was used on your friend?
WTF?!? Where are you getting all of these interviews? I’ve been looking for a job for 19 months and had two interviews.
I’m in France. It’s the same apocalypse as in the USA, but companies and recruiters are eager to get the biggest number of resume in their database. 50 is only a random number and it makes no difference in what you experience. Most companies post job offers, but never hire anyone, I’ve seen it because those offers are reposted as “brand new” every other week, which means that they found no one and they try again.
I use LinkedIn, Welcome to the Jungle, Hello Work, and every other site where I can apply. I think I sent at least 2 resumes every day for 6 months, i.e. 360 resumes, and most interviews are only meant for the recruiter to read my resume, me to explain it, and that’s it. It seldom ends with a real interview in the final company. I forgot to mention that the recruiters are mostly working for “contracting companies” which is where you apply when you are desperate.
To sum it up, 50 or 10 interviews is the same thing, there is no job nowadays, it’s all lies. The serious jobs I found where from small unknown companies that do not advertise at all…
i think AI is being used to screen job applicant resumes in the usa, thats why i think theres been so many people who have the same problem.
Let me guess, 10 years experience needed?
Not yet, but they all have various job titles like AI developer, AI architect, AI devops, AI anything… It’s like they stick the word AI to traditional roles and expect people to understand what it’s all about (or pretend it’s a job that exists at all, it’s a scam after all).
At such a point, you could well say “Yes I am!”, since it’s a bullshitting race, and nobody can tell if it’s true.
actually no, whenever you fail to do a task they will blame you instead of admitting that AI is trash
Almost everywhere I’ve applied or know people at is frothing at the mouth for AI. Interestingly, I met a guy last weekend that works for a big video game studio you’ve heard of, and he was like “everyone here hates AI. Management on down”. So that was nice to hear.
Fight fire with fire. Feed the job requirement to the AI. If tech Claude Sonnet is good for this. Then feed it your resume and have it flag any mismatched items between the req and your CV. Adjust resume as necessary until the AI is content with the match. Repeat with other AI like ChatGPT, etc, until they are all content. Process should take less than 30 minutes. Submit.