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[–] 70 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Corollary:

The job market will be flooded with a shitload of junior devs who never actually earned their degree in the coming years, and anyone older than a mid-gen zoomer is gonna be able to pretty much write their own check.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (10 children)

    Just think though what you will be doing for that check you write yourself, going through mountains of incomprehensible AI code. Just make sure you add 20g to whatever salary you were thinking.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I spent a big chunk of my career going through mountains of incomprehensible human-generated code. I eventually learned that it was generally easier to just start over from scratch. At the same time I learned that nothing makes corporate bosses' heads explode faster than telling them that their codebase sucks and needs to be rewritten from scratch. My solution to this fundamental dilemma was to become a school bus driver.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Honestly this is one of the things that was slightly tempting me to become a programmer, but like actually learn how to do it not overly they on ai

    Instead though I'm becoming a machinist cuz I'm better with my hands

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