I’m learning HTML and other stuff to make a webpage for fun. It’ll be really low quality probably, but it doesn’t have to be great, it’s for me.
Coding is not dead, and it will not be until the last people with a passion for it die, if not, later than that
Open source devs working on literally the most important infrastructure that powers all other software development: Y’all are getting paid?
working from home. and motherfuckers trying to take it away.
I was programming in basic when I was like 10 years old and have been hooked ever since. I have been enthralled with these machines for over 40 years. I mean I come home from work (in IT obviously) and mess around with my home lab. The money isn’t bad obviously but this is and always has been what I was destined to do.
Honestly, not at all. If CS paid like shit I’d still do it. Out of all the things it’s just what I enjoy most. Studying CS didn’t feel like something I had to do but rather something I wanted to do most of the time. Programming is like solving puzzles but then much cooler
Why the state of the industry is shit, in a nutshell.
Working to be able to support yourself and family is not a bad thing. Most people would leave their job if they stopped getting paid.
Both statements can be true at once (yours and the comment you replied to).
Money has definitely something to do with it, but when my job had nothing to do with computers I programmed way better. I kinda want to be back to that one day, the dream is to open/join a car repair shop and program, not for money, like the good old times.
To be honest, I could have had a better paycheck doing industrial plumbing for an international chem-corp near my hometown, but I really love solving problems and puzzles and to work with my mind, not my hands. Programming was my hobby since I was 16, and I just made my hobby into a job. Still love it.
I love the: lack of exposure to toxic chemicals (usually), the lack of harsh loud work environments (usually), the comfy chair and peaceful office space (eventually), and the fact that the money is good enough pretty much seals the deal. I like working with my hands, making things, wearing ear and eye protection, cutting down trees with chainsaws, replacing engines in cars: on my own terms, not as something I have to do 250 days a year to avoid homelessness.
Ask a finance pro why they went into finance. If you don’t get the same answer, they are lying.
Anyway, I fell involve with computers and programing at 13 years old, and nothing else appealed to me, so guess what I became?
Involve
And I graduated into the era of AI to not make any anyways :V
AI isn’t taking junior dev jobs. There are just too many people for the jobs available.
There could be too many people too, but A.I. is taking (atleast some) junior dev jobs.
Companies are not hiring juniors and instead giving A.I. to the rest of their employees thinking that that will offset the loss of junior jobs.
Of course not every company will be like that, but it seems to be a common trend. If the trend continues, we could end up in a world where there’s a big mid-level to senior shortage because juniors stopped being hired (and therefore trained).
A.I. is taking (atleast some) junior dev jobs.
I think this is likely to be a temporary-transient effect, until they figure out that they still need thinking people to work with the LLMs to get what they need. Some of this transition period is going to involve discovery that they didn’t need some of those junior devs in the first place, and eventual discovery that they need more junior devs for new things.
I think it’s IBM that told a story of downsizing 15,000 people in various areas, and re-hiring 20,000 people in other areas - including people tasked with running the AI/LLM interfaces.
^Prompt Engineer
Anyone who thinks it’s about the prompts (or the programming language du-jour) is missing the real questions.
I mean, for me personally money was only part of the equation considering I was willing to put myself in debt. I could have better job security doing a trade job if money was the only factor. I also found computers inheritly interesting and the job was in high demand at the time. It all has backfired now though, despite developing a passion for tech and software overtime. I honestly SHOULD have done something only for the money instead of finding the best of both worlds, but hindsight is 20/20 I suppose
