The market was saturated. As it turned out, the economy simply did not need that many software engineers. Joe Biden and Barack Obama told people, “learn to code”. They did, and they lost. Employers are not interested in entry level programmers as they did before. They want actual engineers who know how to build things and solve problems. They are looking for any excuse to fire you. AI is basically what an efficient economy does. It makes some jobs obsolete, or not as useful.
The Computer-Science Bubble Is Bursting
Submitted 8 months ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.zip
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Amoxtli@thelemmy.club 8 months ago
FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Cursor (which everyone at my job is now “heavily encouraged “ to use) spat code at me today that attempted to hardcode credentials. Good luck guys!
rumba@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Yeah, it still can’t do it itself, not even close. And it doesn’t always make good decisions, But having it set up the calls to an API? That’s 10 minutes of research I don’t have to do.
Technus@lemmy.zip 8 months ago
Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.
What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
I’ve been warning colleagues and leadership about this for a couple years now. It baffles me that people don’t understand they’re hollowing out the whole discipline of computer science and engineering, at large. The knock-on effects are going to be - and i know this sounds hyperbolic, but I stand by it - incalculable.
I guess I’ll just retire in a decade as an Elder Techpriest…? Who even knows at this point.
ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 8 months ago
Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Yes. That is literally the plan.
In a few years, I am expecting a huge consulting boom like the COBOL / FORTRAN boom that happened during Y2K.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 8 months ago
Yep the boom bust continues.
TootSweet@lemmy.world 8 months ago
Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.
I call bullshit.
CAWright@infosec.pub 8 months ago
The companies that don’t by into this hype are going to be positioned well when the bubble bursts.