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Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle

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Submitted ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨mesamunefire@piefed.social⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://nypost.com/2025/08/11/business/coding-students-whose-jobs-were-taken-by-ai-forced-to-work-at-chipotle/

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  • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    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

    overhyped topic

    News editors: Let’s go ahead and publish another “news” article about a TikTok video on an overhyped topic!

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    • superfes@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      There just trying to make AI sound successful, just like the overlords want them to.

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      • SSUPII@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I am more inclined to think they just want ragebait articles and AI is a current easy target

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      • sundray@lemmus.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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!”

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      • CallMeAnAI@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        It is successful. On what planet are you living?

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    • WanderingThoughts@europe.pub ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      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.

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      • Perspectivist@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        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.

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    • paulzy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      The “journalist” credited’s bio literally says he is addicted to twitter as some kind of base of honor.

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I am going to gleefully watch those companies burn when seniors retire or move on and there is no one left with experience to supervise AI code or beginner level coders.

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    • GenXLiberal@lemmy.world ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      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.

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  • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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    • pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What do you do now?

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      • SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        System Admin

        I wanted to make videogames originally. :/

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      • huquad@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Kill your masters

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  • uhdeuidheuidhed@thelemmy.club ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    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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  • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Don’t believe everything you read in the NYPost.

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    • spazzman6156@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Don’t believe anything you read there.

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  • HowAbt2day@futurology.today ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    The “pick yourself up by your bootstraps” folks ordering a burrito. Bootstrap?

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    • Harvey656@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      If I pick myself up by the bootstrap, am I technically floating?

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      • jbaber@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        That was the original joke.

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  • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m sorry but if AI coding platforms have replaced you as a programmer then you were a bad programmer or were poorly educated and should just work at Chipotle.

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    • iii@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Everyone starts somewhere my dude

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      • garretble@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Exactly.

        Even college graduates need time to learn and build experience as they work up the ladder. A lot of theory and stuff someone might learn in college won’t necessarily be what they’ll find in the job world.

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    • BakerBagel@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Pay no attention to the massive layoffs across the tech sector the last 2 years. Definitely the workers’ faults

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    • pirate2377@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      You’re so right. That’s why I graduated with a degree in computer science with a 3.58 GPA whilst carrying my teams on projects and worked my ass off to apply to many jobs and internships during my education as well as learning additional skills not being taught to me on the side…only to be met with nothing but rejection after rejection without so much as an internview. Guess I should just work at Walmart for $14/hr because I’m a talentless hack that will never amount to anything. $70,000 well spent!

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      • PacketPilot@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The social contract is completely and utterly broken. For as long as hard work and investments in one’s future gets people absolutely nowhere, we will continue to be a degenerating society that doesn’t give a shit about being aspirational. There won’t be anyone left to care about space exploration or scientific advancements if all of the extremely talented people who can make it happen have the ball and chain of capitalism holding them down and sucking the life out of them. It’s impossible to dream big when you’re living in a nightmare.

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      • reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        If you have a degree, you can work somewhere else besides Chipotle. It might not be in the field of your major, but it will be better paying than fast food.

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    • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      what a poorly educated and tone deaf response to a post that didn’t ask for or need your opinion.

      just because you have thoughts, doesn’t mean you’re free to share them.

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      • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        What an uneducated and pointless response to a comment that didn’t ask for or need your opinion.

        Just because you dislike the reality of our world doesn’t mean it’s not happening.

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    • FishFace@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I am software engineer, and the coding LLM we have is absolutely capable of doing a bunch of tasks you’d give to a new grad.

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    • dil@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Or they did compsci degrees like most schools offer not software engineering and didn’t actually learn how to code

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      • atticus88th@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        Judging by the replies here I think you are absolutely right.

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  • WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
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    • MycelialMass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What? Your friend hated your 20s??

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      • Quadrexium@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        My friend, absolutely hated my 20s? maybe?

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  • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Well, no they know what it’s like to have a bachelor’s degree in any other field. Welcome to the club.

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    • TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      Once the peasants are all replaced by AI they won’t need those jobs either

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      • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        Were quite a ways off from technician jobs get replaced at scale. Like some VC cunt can dream but good luck.

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      • Cocodapuf@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

        The peasants will still shit, count on it.

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  • salty_chief@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Coding AI is like hold my beer. Folding an over priced burrito not so much.

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  • goatinspace@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • daggermoon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Why should I even try? If the job market is this bad.

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    • FiskFisk33@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      if you start studying now, chances are the market will have improved when you graduate.

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  • jollyrogue@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    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.

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