The job market will be flooded with a shitload of junior devs who never actually earned their degree in the coming years, and anyone older than a mid-gen zoomer is gonna be able to pretty much write their own check.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 27 points 4 days ago (4 children)

Just think though what you will be doing for that check you write yourself, going through mountains of incomprehensible AI code. Just make sure you add 20g to whatever salary you were thinking.

[–] LongLive@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago (2 children)

20g? like gold coins?

[–] trxxruraxvr@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago

With the ever rising prices of gold that might not be a bad idea

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 9 points 4 days ago (1 children)

No like 20 extra grams of that guud

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Gotta get my nut

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 13 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I spent a big chunk of my career going through mountains of incomprehensible human-generated code. I eventually learned that it was generally easier to just start over from scratch. At the same time I learned that nothing makes corporate bosses' heads explode faster than telling them that their codebase sucks and needs to be rewritten from scratch. My solution to this fundamental dilemma was to become a school bus driver.

[–] Sanctus@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Maybe I should be glad I never got the dev jobs I wanted and was relegated to help desk.

[–] ChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

For me, developing applications was a joy ... but only when I was left completely alone to do everything by myself. Such opportunities were just becoming rarer and rarer.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

You left off a zero

If I’m gonna have to un-fuck your AI slop codebase, you better fucking believe I’m going to charge you through the nose for it.

[–] boonhet@sopuli.xyz 3 points 4 days ago

Maybe the 20 was meant as monthly lol

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

Applicants should be asking employers: how extensive has your firm's use of AI generated coding tools been over the last few years?

[–] astropenguin5@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Honestly this is one of the things that was slightly tempting me to become a programmer, but like actually learn how to do it not overly they on ai

Instead though I'm becoming a machinist cuz I'm better with my hands

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Ngl I kinda want to get into metalworking. It looks super fun, tbh.