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shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day agoIt’s like the dotcom bubble in that everyone is striking out in every which direction on this neew tech, hoping they’re the last man standing.
This one is far worse though. Not sure how I’ll survive it, but I sense my IT career is over.
I sense my IT career is over
Me too. Honestly, even if it never deflates I think long term I’m out.
Is there anything we can do with these skills other than enrich billionaire tech bro assholes? I tried very briefly tonight to look for nonprofits that are looking for software people and saw nothing but search engine mismatches.
All I got is to start a small business consulting, fixing and installing for small business. Did that on the side 12-years ago and it was amazing how fast business owners jumped when offered services for a reasonable price.
We could go on-call for a monthly fee. $200/mo. per customer stacks quickly. But you have to get a feel for your customers, set expectations and fire the skinflints. If you don’t have people skills, this is a non-starter. I got people skills, no business skills.
Been there, done that, know myself, not motivated enough. Give me a time and place to be, give me work, give me a paycheck and benefits, I’ll knock it out the park. But if I gotta get out of bed and knock doors, again, I got the people skills, but I can’t self motivate.
Help bring back the free and open internet before it’s completely lost.
Forget having a high salary, most of us will never have that at all or again after what they do to us.
A former colleague of mine started a farm 5 years ago. He wrote a few apps to help him with the process and even launched one to help reach customers directly.
I do not use iOS devices and could not take a look, but if you are curious, here is the app page: apps.apple.com/ca/app/arivon/id6742965675
And here is his LinkedIn page: linkedin.com/…/karunanithi-ranganadhan-65a60028/
More than a decade of programming. Few years of farming. I am wishing him success - as I might be asking for a framing job from him if this trend continues…
Create a Open Source project for something that bothers you personally and apply for one of the Open Collective, Nlnet, Prototype Fund, Techcultivation, …
Yes, the market right now is bent toward large existing players. There is room for competition for Lyft and Uber for example. If you can find workarounds for regulatory obstacles.
I sense my IT career is over.
The IT grunt work is going to get 10x easier (need 1/10th the head count for grunt work).
If you do more than grunt work, as most “computer” people actually do, your job should be safe from AI for a while.
Your career will most likely be safe. After all, someone has to comenin after the AI burns everything down to properly repair and fix the mistakes.
People will be very surprised when they are wrong about this, and the IT field actually grows because of Ai.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
the dotcom bubble saw us build out thousands of miles of fiber that didn’t get lit for a decade. still was fine tho after that time.
tell me aibros, how many of those AI specific accelerator cards will be useful in a decade?
lol
Honytawk@feddit.nl 1 day ago
Text and image generation will keep existing in the long run.
Other aspects may collapse, but those tools are too useful for many businesses and individuals.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I suspect materials science and broad biology will eventually enormously benefit - but yeah. otherwise…
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Worked at company, forget the name (Williams something?) but they were the peak IT when I started my career in Tulsa, 2000 or so. They were laying fiber, but mostly lighting dark fiber. They were the future! Best employer in town! Crashed and burned, hard.
But as you said, those resources were laid to be exploited. Guess whoever figures out how to exploit the coming AI wreckage will lead the next wave of tech. Is that even going to be possible?!
Funny story; My camp is outside a town of 900 souls, most of those in the surrounding countryside. The ISP just ran fiber! There’s a stub-out at the end of my “block”! Totally uninhabited but for my weekly visits, but imagine that. Fiber everywhere now.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
also must add:
fuuuuuck oklahoma has fiber to the block and I can’t get it here? goddffffuuuuuuckking damnit comcast sucks so much balls
shalafi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Camp is actually in rural NW Florida. :)
Driving down the dirt road I noticed new undergound infrastructure. Kinda weird because all those roads are private, not government, rednecks with tractors do the road maintenance. I was stunned to see a stub at the end of my abandoned street.
mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 1 day ago
that’s the thing, gpus age like hot piss on a texas summer day. gonna be very interesting to see how these corpses are picked over.