people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft *(waves from "2023: Software Engineer IV; 2025: prison commissary operations team member")*
Partly because I couldn't stomach the prompt engineering. Partly because 50+ years old. Partly because AuDHD is no longer a selling point in startup land.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft 2029: Phone rings. “We need you back! The AI bubble burst and now nobody has the skills to understand the crappy code generated with AI” <kerching!> 🤑
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft Joke's on them, I'm already unemployed!
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft It's a good time to return to the dark side, from which I should never have emerged. At least there, if I use AI, I gain more than I lose.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft certainly looks like it.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
Software engineering went from an expert domain (specialized solutions) to an amateur domain (anything goes) to a factory worker domain (more is more).
In that sense, AI slopping is just a continuation of the current "good enough if it sells" approach.
The people had a choice and they chose.
🤷♂️
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft Noo, i will graduate next two month, hope me get IT job faster
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft
Sounds accurate. I worked for various tech firms from 2018-2022 but kept getting laid off due to incompetence in management of teams over and over.
Now I'm working at a co-op grocer with similar management headaches. -
people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft I completely agree with this article. AI doesn't replace tech jobs as much as provides convinient excuse to bully expensive engineers into submission.
Fire many, force others to do their job or else
Previously these actions led to sharp stock price decline, now CEOs tell tales of AI replacing...
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft There’s too much software anyway. Most of it is redundant or parasitic. Make real things. Software was supposed to help us get better at making real things. Instead, it became an end unto itself. Much like finance.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft this is just how capitalism operates. maximally optimizing work is the very thing that set it apart from the old ways of organizing society. what we are seeing now happening with IT workers is the same thing that happened with artisans and craftspeople of the older days: replaced by factories and highly specialized workers (specialized in the sense that any one of them can, for example, make a shoelace, or a strap, but none of them know how to make the entire shoe)
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
Reminds me of this old meme
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft It should be noted that AI is not the reason, but the excuse.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft
They convinced you all that you'd be tech bros one day and have given you just enough gold to not care about the quality of your work. Unionize now. Adopt professional standards of safety and reliability. Care for the juniors and the over 50s. Programming was never a mote. It was just rare. Y'all taught the kids to code and devalued yourselves -
people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft become an ai plumber / ai janitor / ai cleanup person and you'll be having a million job opportunities in 2027
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft Some big issues with this - the savings for the company are passed onto the tax payer in unemployment and support costs. Some if not most countries cap the amount of unemployment support people can get. If you are an older employee it may be impossible to work again - outcome more investers with superyachts and higher taxes for the populous! Unemployment through AI should cost the employer 5-10 years salary in tax. Issues down the line also involve the reduction of LLM data quality
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft it feels like there will be a lot of work for guaranteed-no-ai-produced code shops soon.
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
It's wild having grown up in a time when massive amounts of effort was put into encouraging young people to become software engineers and get into computer science, and that cohort finally reaches an age where they're entering the job market or are well into a career and suddenly it's "Ehh, never mind. Sorry you built your life around this, we don't need your skills now."
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people might joke but this is where the it industry is headed and nobody is safe. it doesn't matter if you are good or bad, you are just another commodity. just look at how many engineering jobs were cut in the past 18 months. Oracle is now reporting it will cut 30k jobs. there is no regulation in place and by the time our politicians wake up there will be nothing left. once it was a thriving industry and now it is on the brink of collapse. the change is real whether you like it or not
@nixCraft can't wait for the collapse and subsequent rebuild of new companies without the crud and hopefully without the VC and billionaires.
At some point we collectively need to find the light right?
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