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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Note: These bots cannot, and likely will not, ba able to handle escalation items appropriately. There is a skill pipeline from junior tech to higher tiers and we're going to see an aging skill demographic evaporate into thin air with no one to train the new bots on how to handle a constantly evolving tech base.

Source: MSP T2 Tech

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

    these companies are just hoping to have a few senior level or experience programmers to fix the issues, of the ai or outsourced workers.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    That's still tens of thousands of jobs that will retire without a train-to-replace pipeline. And escalation, by design, is not formulaic enough to be handled by AI. It exclusively includes all tickets outside the normal troubleshooting and maintenance standard.

    We'll see an aging escalation base untill the pressure forces a few into retirement, which adds to other pressure and snowballs until we have an entire nation of Tier 1 chatbots and overseas Pakistani call center escalation reps.

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

    All the companies that don't invest in junior developers are going to have a major issue once their senior developers retire.

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  • [–] 25 points 1 year ago*

    It's not (just) AI, it's shameless and unregulated outsourcing, and H-1B visa abuse. At least in the US.

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

    In the early 1900s there were unemployed councils, it might be time for unemployed/underemployed grads to start thinking about organizing themselves into similar organizations.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    if it wasnt a problem before AI came on the board , it was deficient at least for CS people. the prime time to get hired was 2014ish-2020. thats why there was o many disastified reviews of universities during midpandemic of fresh graduates.

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    [–] 29 points 1 year ago (11 children)

    So what happens when the experienced devs quit or retire... ?

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  • [–] 21 points 1 year ago

    That's the question that no AI-bro has answered so far. When I retire, I'll spend my time writing simple open-source stuff for me and for those who still want to create stuff and solve problems.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    On a realistic scale in 20 years AI doesn't just pop it crashes every CEOs company that bet on it because AI is just a pattern recognition algorithm and its all just attempts at following the pattern it recognizes.

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

    Same shit when we shipped the jobs in 2013 to code farms that had no fucking clue how to actually do dev work. It'll come back in a few years. Give it no more than another 5 years of this shit and code will be so fucked production will grind to a halt requiring these idiots to rehire competent devs again, then the jr positions will follow.

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

    This still assumes that there will still be competent devs who want to come back to work.

    What have they been doing for the last five years ? Presumably finding something else to pay the rent and/or provide fulfillment.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago

    Honestly I think AI is a scape goat here. Tech has been doing layoffs and reducing staff since covid ended and I think they're just rolling with the AI excuse to both make AI sound more competent and to take some heat off of them.

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