No, but yes too.
Two decades of “just learn to code bro”, will do that to a profession.
While the idea behind AI was that it would automate manual tasks and help workers focus on more value-added activities, some workers fear it will outright replace them — and that’s already happening
Yeah, it already happened to the journalist that would have written this article. I find it a bit funny that the picture caption is just the prompt they used to generate it
Says / asks an article published in a media spin-off created by a big fintech company, which has been funded by, among others, Peter Thiel.
Yes, the tech sector is in a harsh condition, but we will go on. Don’t let the AI hype / lay off waves for an overhired tech workforce from covid break your minds. There will be a need for smart people building and maintaining ecosystems, as long as a rising tech oligarchy won’t gatekeep us all out, which should be the headline here.
Edit: I can’t find a link between the fintech wise and the publisher wise. I still don’t like this type of sensationalist headlines as all technology get’s allegedly obsoleted every other year.
If your job can be automated. Your job will be automated. Even if the work it produces is hot runny shit.
They would rather pump out pure garbage than pay an honest wage for honest work. It doesn’t even have to work. They’ll just put an arbitration clause in the EULA. Then sit back and count their money.
Of course it is. Your employer will replace you with an immigrant or AI as soon as they can, that’s how capitalism works.
Nothing will meaningfully improve until the rich fear for their lives
The first sentence of the article shows the problem.
For years, we heard about the tech talent shortage — that there were a glut of jobs and not enough bodies to fill them.
The problem wasn’t ever “bodies,” which people have always misunderstood. It’s qualified workers.
I worked in tech for a long time, at a bunch of different companies, and I never once worked anywhere that there was a glut of jobs and “not enough bodies” to fill them.
The people going into these careers includes a large number of people who want the money but aren’t qualified do what we’re looking for.
Its more than that; companies also continuously propagate the message of “shortage of workers” while continuing to raise the requirements for entry level positions more and more. It reaches a point where “entry level” is not attainable for most fresh grads to get experience, and keeps their starting wages (and continuing wages) very well depressed due to the high supply.
Its a very targeted campaign to make sure educated workers are oversupplied, tied down with student debt, and don’t get too many ideas of independence in their heads.
Maybe if people hadn’t pushed everyone in the entire fucking world into my field we wouldn’t have this problem
Maybe if the field hadn’t pushed everyone else out of business…
Skill issue /s
Yea bro that’s what they do. See you making a living wage, then flood the labor pool. Welcome back to the barrel Mon crab
It’s not just grads. I have 1 open senior position, 100 applicants. A good 10% of them with 15+ years of experience have had no job in the last year, or have things like “Amazon fulfillment center” as their most recent job. Shits rough if you find yourself laid off or if the company you’re working for went out of business.
On the flipside, we had a senior position open for something like 2 years before we finally got someone we’re happy with. We fired two before we found someone would would actually do work and not cuss out our external partners.
We’re still having trouble hiring mid-levels. Most of the candidates are surprised when we ask them questions about React when the job position clearly states it’s for React, and they’re also surprised when we ask them to write a few lines of code in an interview (nothing crazy, should take a competent dev 5-10 min, and a nervous one 15, so we allocate 20 min). I don’t think our expectations are unreasonable, here’s how we delineate between tiers:
- junior - needs help from a mentor to deliver feature work
- mid-level - needs direction on larger features, but can deliver independently
- senior - manages larger features, consults w/ architect on high-level design considerations
But all the senior applicants are mid-level at best, mid-level applicants are recent college grads, and junior applicants just finished a coding bootcamp and think they’re hot stuff because they built a rails app by following step-by-step instructions.
We’re not a flashy tech company, we manufacture niche products for a niche field, and our software does simulations and reports. It’s a complicated product, and we’re totally willing to train people, we just want people who can demonstrate that they can ask proper questions and translate that into easy to understand code. The interview questions aren’t hard, but they are intentionally incomplete because we’re not testing coding ability but instead the ability to recognize vagueness and ask clarifying questions (i.e. ask before you assume).
We’re not anyone’s top pick, but we do have a lot of interesting problems to solve and people tend to really like it here. So the candidates we tend to get are desperate people who aren’t getting bites at the flashier companies, which often means they’re not all that competent. During COVID, we’d get maybe 5 applicants for a role after it has been open for a month, and now we’re getting 200-300 in the first few days of the position being open. A lot of those applicants are incompetent and I’m surprised they were offered their previous role, but there are some diamonds in the rough.
What matters isn’t whether you think that AI can replace you. What matters is whether the CEO thinks that AI can replace you.
Its sort of funny that the IT industry is investing their whole effort into a program that will… …destroy the IT industry ?
Tbf, it’s not really the IT grunts pouring their heart and soul into this trend. It’s more the top-level execs seeing more $$ in their pockets at EOQ/EOY bonus time by hiring fewer 6-figure employees and relying more on
AIhallucinogenic LLMs, while the gruntsdabble with itfight with the stupid piece of shit just so they cansay “Yeah sure I used X AI program to help speed this up”appease these idiots who believe it’s their saving grace.Source: Am dev/grunt dealing with said idiots. Opinion likely biased, take with grain of salt.
Maybe we should start with kicking out the non-nerds ??
nerds are often egotistical, selfish and individualistic. Let’s kick them out and unionize instead
