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[–] 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (13 children)

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.

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  • [–] 54 points 1 year ago* (8 children)

    They're just trying to make AI sound successful, just like the overlords want them to.

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  • [+] -7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    It is successful. On what planet are you living?

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    The one where every LLM-generated shell script I read is another deep splinter in my fingernail quick that I have to rip out and destroy because it's a godfucked mess of bad practices that we can never ever ever ever EVER train out of an LLM at this point.

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

    Lemmy bubble stronk bubble :)

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

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    While I agree with you, its that very misunderstanding that bosses and owners have, and they'll fire regular folks and replace with ai. They may suffer lower quality and even catastrophic failures but it will take time for them to realise and rehire people. All those regular folks will be out of work during that time.

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  • [–] 29 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year 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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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    Betcha wish ya'd fucking unionised now.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Don’t believe everything you read in the NYPost.

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  • [–] 18 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    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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    System Admin

    I wanted to make videogames originally. :/

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

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

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

    Well, now they know what it's like to have a bachelor's degree in any other field. Welcome to the club.

    If you want a guaranteed job right away, go into medicine, or plumbing, those are safe bets. I expect people will always get sick and need to shit.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

    The peasants will still shit, count on it.

    Besides, let's not pretend this "AI replacing us all" narrative has any real lasting power. We see the same story constantly, company replaces workers with AI, company regrets it later. This AI sucks, it's not there yet. You don't really have to worry about it long term.

    Don't mistake the weather for the climate.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

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

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  • [+] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago* (1 child)

    Why should I even try? If the job market is this bad. I've been struggling with this question.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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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  • 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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  • [+] -25 points 1 year ago (13 children)

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

    Everyone starts somewhere my dude

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    The ladder that starts at Chipotle is not one that leads to work in the field you studied for. College graduates who are struggling to find jobs would relish the opportunity to work up the ladder in their field, but there are insufficient entry level jobs.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] -4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    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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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    I've tried applying for jobs that didn't really require my degree but was adjacent to it like data entry and help desk after graduating unemployed, only to be met with more rejection and failure. It's as if my degree doesn't exist. Unless you have any suggestions for a job that only requires a non-specific degree, but I've heard having a degree in itself isn't valuable to employers at all unless it's related in some way to the job. Either way, I'm trying to stay motivated to make projects on the side to hopefully refine my programming even further, but not only do I don't have any ideas for projects that don't already exist, but I'm not fully convinced that it will be worth the time. Especially considering every other attempt that involved working and studying for many hours have blown up in my face so far.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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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