The companies that don't by into this hype are going to be positioned well when the bubble bursts.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2025
1 points (100.0% liked)
Technology
3262 readers
68 users here now
Which posts fit here?
Anything that is at least tangentially connected to the technology, social media platforms, informational technologies and tech policy.
Post guidelines
[Opinion] prefix
Opinion (op-ed) articles must use [Opinion] prefix before the title.
Rules
1. English only
Title and associated content has to be in English.
2. Use original link
Post URL should be the original link to the article (even if paywalled) and archived copies left in the body. It allows avoiding duplicate posts when cross-posting.
3. Respectful communication
All communication has to be respectful of differing opinions, viewpoints, and experiences.
4. Inclusivity
Everyone is welcome here regardless of age, body size, visible or invisible disability, ethnicity, sex characteristics, gender identity and expression, education, socio-economic status, nationality, personal appearance, race, caste, color, religion, or sexual identity and orientation.
5. Ad hominem attacks
Any kind of personal attacks are expressly forbidden. If you can't argue your position without attacking a person's character, you already lost the argument.
6. Off-topic tangents
Stay on topic. Keep it relevant.
7. Instance rules may apply
If something is not covered by community rules, but are against lemmy.zip instance rules, they will be enforced.
Companion communities
[email protected]
[email protected]
Icon attribution | Banner attribution
If someone is interested in moderating this community, message @[email protected].
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
The market was saturated. As it turned out, the economy simply did not need that many software engineers. Joe Biden and Barack Obama told people, "learn to code". They did, and they lost. Employers are not interested in entry level programmers as they did before. They want actual engineers who know how to build things and solve problems. They are looking for any excuse to fire you. AI is basically what an efficient economy does. It makes some jobs obsolete, or not as useful.
Cursor (which everyone at my job is now “heavily encouraged “ to use) spat code at me today that attempted to hardcode credentials. Good luck guys!
Yeah, it still can't do it itself, not even close. And it doesn't always make good decisions, But having it set up the calls to an API? That's 10 minutes of research I don't have to do.
Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.
What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years' time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
Thats 20-80 fiscal quarters away, an eternity in capitalist time. During most of which the leadership that chose this path can hit the eject button, open their golden parachute, and utterly avoid any personal consequence of having looted the future potential of the company for a few years of bigger bonuses for themselves.
Much like how politicians have been directing entire countries in recent years
Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Yes. That is literally the plan.
In a few years, I am expecting a huge consulting boom like the COBOL / FORTRAN boom that happened during Y2K.
Yep the boom bust continues.
Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.
I call bullshit.