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Report: Losing your job to AI doesn’t just lead to unemployment, it leaves lasting scars (www.cnn.com)
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[–] 6 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I hope you're wrong because it seems true so far. There is a thread on HN about it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47278426

I have partially been fired because of AI. I was working with juniors and scientists, and helped them fix their shitty code. They denied it all the way but it was generated by ChatGPT and Cursor.

As of today, I've been unemployed for more than 3 months which is unprecedented for me. The worst I ever had before was being unemployed for 24 hours. Friends of mine are in the same situation. I would have gone freelance earlier if I knew and had the guts to do it.

Most job offers are either fake, or very specific. Anyway, all the jobs around me are Java/Spring or FullStack, everything else disappeared in the past 2 years. And when a job offer is posted, you have 200+ applicants whatever the subject is, even in a medium town that cannot have so many developers.

As for the friends who still have a job, they are in denial about it. They don't read forums like HN or Lemmy, and they don't update their skills. I hope they keep those jobs forever.

My conclusion is that programming is dead, and I would happily do something else for a living while coding Pascal on a 386 as a hobby because fuck that fucking shit.

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Funnily enough I'm an under-employed software engineer hired as a cleanup crew for sprawling tech debt partially caused by AI dependence. My colleagues are sick of it but have to keep generating slop to meet KPIs demanded of us to artificially justify the company expenditure on the failing technology.

    I don't think programming will be dead forever but rather there will be decades worth of soul crushing techdebt to fix across multiple industries, with the brain drain screwing over vibe coders after the impending AI economic collapse.

    All I can do in the mean time is bide my time and play the long game, focusing on diagnosing and fixing things I know the AI fails miserably at comprehending to establish a record of complex jobs nobody could vibe their way out of. I.e. become the nuclear bomb of knowledge they cannot afford to risk losing.

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  • [–] 2 points 7 months ago

    The problem is, it's going to leave atomic waste behind it. It's like an executive detonated nuclear bomb. There's going to be companies that have millions to billions sunk on non-functional assets and programming. The people who led them into this are going to skip off with a big golden parachute, and there's going to be no debt available and no assets available left behind to do anything with. There will be zombie companies that just kind of tread into irrelevancy, if you are lucky enough to be employed by one, then you'll be fine. Everyone else is fucked.

    Just play the game. And start squirrelling money away like you never have before.

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