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[-] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 25 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My mate is applying to Amazon as warehouse worker. He has an IT degree.

My coworker in the bookkeeping department has two degrees. Accountancy and IT. She can't find an IT job.

At the other side though, my brother, an experienced software developer, is earning quite a lot of money now.

Basically, the industry is not investing in new blood.

[-] CalipherJones@lemmy.world 14 points 1 day ago

As someone trying to get a job in IT, I'm just going to ignore this comment :)

[-] boonhet@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

My company was desperate to find a brand new dev straight out of the oven we could still mold to our sensibilities late last year when everything seemed doomed. Yes, it was one hire out of like 10 interviewed candidates, but point is, there are companies still hiring. Our CTO straight up judges people who use an LLM and don't know how the code actually works. Mr. "Just use an AI agent" would never get the job.

[-] Wanpieserino@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day ago

Don't you worry, my job will be replaced by AI as well. By 2026 peppol invoices will be enforced in Belgium. Reducing bookkeepers their workload.

ITers replacing my job: ๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜๐Ÿ˜

ITers replacing their own jobs: ๐Ÿ˜ง๐Ÿ˜ง๐Ÿ˜ง

[-] Miaou@jlai.lu 3 points 1 day ago

Not sure how you manage to draw conclusions by comparing two different fields.

Basically, the industry is not investing in new blood.

Yeah I think it makes sense out of an economic motivation. Often the code-quality of a junior is worse than that of an AI, and a senior has to review either, so they could just directly prompt the junior task into the AI.

The experience and skill to quickly grasp code and intention (and having a good initial idea where it should be going architecturally) is what is asked, which is obviously something that seniors are good at.

It's kinda sad that our profession/art is slowly dying out because juniors are slowly replaced by AI.

[-] theterrasque@infosec.pub 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah, I've been seeing the same. Purely economically it doesn't make sense with junior developers any more. AI is faster, cheaper and usually writes better code too.

The problem is that you need junior developers working and getting experience, otherwise you won't get senior developers. I really wonder how development as a profession will be in 10 years

this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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