Coding students whose jobs were taken by AI forced to find work at Chipotle

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.

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.

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.

Betcha wish ya'd fucking unionised now.

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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a tiktok video about overhyped topic

News editors: Let's go ahead and publish another "news" article about a TikTok video on an overhyped topic!

The “journalist” credited’s bio literally says he is addicted to twitter as some kind of base of honor.
They're just trying to make AI sound successful, just like the overlords want them to.
- I am more inclined to think they just want ragebait articles and AI is a current easy target
- Yeah, these types of stories are advertisements directed at the landlord class. "Look, AI means fewer icky employees to have to put up with! At last, business without labor!"
- It is successful. On what planet are you living?
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.
- 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.

Don’t believe everything you read in the NYPost.

Don't believe anything you read there.

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.

Once the peasants are all replaced by AI they won't need those jobs either
- Were quite a ways off from technician jobs get replaced at scale. Like some VC cunt can dream but good luck.
- 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.

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

if you start studying now, chances are the market will have improved when you graduate.

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.

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

If I pick myself up by the bootstrap, am I technically floating?
- That was the original joke.

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.

Pay no attention to the massive layoffs across the tech sector the last 2 years. Definitely the workers' faults
Everyone starts somewhere my dude
- 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.
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!
- The social contract is completely and utterly broken. For as long as hard work and investments in one's future gets people absolutely nowhere, we will continue to be a degenerating society that doesn't give a shit about being aspirational. There won't be anyone left to care about space exploration or scientific advancements if all of the extremely talented people who can make it happen have the ball and chain of capitalism holding them down and sucking the life out of them. It's impossible to dream big when you're living in a nightmare.
- 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.
I am software engineer, and the coding LLM we have is absolutely capable of doing a bunch of tasks you'd give to a new grad.
Or they did compsci degrees like most schools offer not software engineering and didn't actually learn how to code
- Judging by the replies here I think you are absolutely right.