The End Of Jr Engineers 

no edit: ok i watched id it was ok

All this AI thrifting will have some serious consequences on the skills of these developers long term. My take: keep learning and coding in the way that suits you best. And once all of these AI assisted developers have fully depreciated their skills, you will be the most hireable person in the room, and then feel free to ask the $ with your leverage.

@@abhinavrobinson2310yup :)

i'm new, why do you always select the entire sentence except the first and last letter when highlighting in articles

The chicken does not make the egg obsolete… all I gatta say

better telling your grandfather to buy all the silver in 1979😁

Makes it all the more surreal when you consider there are any, let alone how many there are, people who'd genuinely agree. Evidently, the only explanation if you're not doing well is you making poor choices, like not being born already rich.

Please step out of the car sir.

Powerful. That's powerful.

@@custos3249

Its not that at all. When looking to start a career you need to look at the job market and the skills deficit, the career progression and security and go from there. If you were dumb enough to just fall for the obvious bullshit that clearly incompetent tech influencers have told you about programming and a job they clearly failed at then you probably deserve all the hardship you get.

bad spawn RNG

Should have waited for the AGI paradise! 😂

Classic noob mistake.

You can't blame them for their rookie mistake. After all they were forced to decide at the ripe young age of -9 months. Truly the most new of noobs.

Yes. Job opportunities named "Junior Developer" asking for 3 years of experience in the area.

😂 I saw one saying I need jr with 8 years of experience. I might as well lie on my resume

You need to realize that the future will be composed of a lot of small companies Software engineers has to become more entrepreneurial

No ​@@dranon0o

Or unpaid internships

I've never been More glad to hear this. I was just really struggling with believing this

So theres hope for us junior entry level guys?

Yes ​@@BizzaroBrainBoi I'm currently a junior Dev at my work place. And I tell you, there's a lot of hope for juniors.

@@BizzaroBrainBoi I would keep going man. I just finished an internship, they said theres a good chance i'll get hired, but not 100%. Will let me know in 1 - 2 weeks while they sort the books. But it should also be noted that im lucky I think, found the internship through people I know. So networking is always powerful

my class action man you are using your real name on the internet. i respect it lol.

and that buys you a very good lifestyle if you arent raising a family or dont wanna make big investments in things. truely sad.

​@@shailendrapandit4405.1 LPA is barely good. That's TCS level, and even TCS is struggling to fill vacancies with the pittances they offer. That being said, yeah, 18k USD per year in India is enough to be top 2%

As an Indian myself, $500 a month is not that bad here. It's like average entry level salary.

At my work we have an external team in India, I feel like I could reasonably replace half or more of their team on my own and do it better, also PRDD - pull request driven development :D Where they throw shit out in a PR, ask you to review and make you do their work for them through comments. India being cheaper doesn't really correlate with quality.

@@deedoodeedoo6382 Congrats?Tell your management you can do it? Lol. Your management wants to pay the lowest band in India for outsourced work, and then you expect talent, as if offering 30k USD per year in the USA wouldn't get you any different.

more like in 15 years. Most developers quit coding at 15 or 20 years of experience for managerial or consulting roles

Same happened in 2008 with mech engineers, companies gutted the mid-levels because juniors for grunt work and seniors for design, caused an issue like 8 years later because all the seniors retired, cost them way more in the long run because they had to beg these guys out of retirement

Companies don't really deal with those kinds of problems, because they aren't some kind of hive mind with other companies that collaborates on these kinds of issues. As far as an individual company is concerned, what effect their actions have on the overall industry is negligible, so it doesn't factor into their decision making at all. It's kind of like a variant on the prisoner's dilemma.

Current CEOs don't care about stuff like what is going to happen as a result of their actions in a decade or two. Right now they'll fire developers en masse, not hire juniors, use everything AI to raise profits for shareholders as much as possible and by the time the problem of there not being enough juniors to take over in the work force becomes an actual problem they'll be long retired somewhere, leaving others to figure out what to do.

@@asdfqwerty14587 Brilliantly said. Kudos 👏🏻

Beautifully said👏

i love you

Stop pretending like the work you do is difficult. It’s not.

@@perc-ai Oh, of course, why didn't I think of asking ChatGPT to do my master's thesis for me?

I worked for 3 large companies now (about to move away from the 3rd one) that have shifted heavily into AI, only for them to not even get much customer interest. The B2B one that I'm currently at halted development on almost all software they provide in favour of integrating AI into everything, and a large majority of their customers have left or threatened to leave because competitors have added new features, better pricing, better support, and they don't really care for the AI bs they added

It's because it's exactly the same thing. A stupid fad about an unreliable, extremely flawed tool that should be treated as it is: a tool. But no, some people bank their whole careers on that thing. Whatever, still not using that stuff, will not use that stuff, maybe ever?

@@otak_ Except these AIs are actually useful, and seem to be improving pretty quickly too. Can't really call something a 'fad' if it is able to do 99% of a high schooler's homework. How do you imagine this 'fad' fading away (like NFTs did, for example)? Do you see school children and college students in the future NOT use these LLMs to help them with their homework? Do you see people who are learning something new NOT use an LLM to give them a quick answer for something? Idk, feels like cope to me.

@@alulim6964 It's because a high schooler's homework is work that has been done countless times already and the AI tools just do the Googling for you.

​@alulim6964 AI is just copying somebody's homework and changing it around a bit on steroids. There will still be students who are actually interested in learning properly. Using students half assing their work as your use case is funny because students will ALWAYS find a way to do less work. If it isn't copying from their classmates it'll be plagiarism or Wikipedia. A technology that erodes the ability of students to even think about half assing in their learning is a disaster waiting to happen.

@@alulim6964 may be school work not college work ,i tried asking the vector addition and multiplication with pictures it cannot do that,chat gpt khan academy module.

@@rama-rao-y8u hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

@@rama-rao-y8u also just think logically, when the senior engineers dead, who's gonna replace them in the future if they dont give a chance to the junior engineers?

sure

I really wish that large companies and firms shared this vision. It is appalling how we shoot ourselves in the foot for fast money. One day, we might have a large problem when junior dev's forget their education after 4+ years at a convenience store.

There's terrific Polish song, monologue of dude who bargains with thieves who come in to steal his hope, and offers them everything else to be laughed at. Krzysztof Daukszewicz - Przyszli Dziś Złodzieje.

same

because it is a seniors and interns market rn, seniors and managers are going on a silent purge for any junior that doesn't strike their whims or superficial impressions. I have seen devs getting laid off just because they don't hang out outside work with the team lead, therefore giving these small devs bad reviews to management, even tho they achieve the required tasks and on time many industries besides tech are going through same silent purge phase, because it is the best time rn to be a narcissistic asshole who decides do deserves to live or not

Everyone knows it, people responsible for hiring and firing don't care. For now firing developers en masse, not hiring juniors and using AI to reduce costs makes more profit for the shareholders, and that's all that matters for now. And as we all know, long term thinking is not the strong suit of most CEOs.

corporate NIMBY, maybe

Henry Ford sought to sell his product to his own workforce - these days that concept has been completely jettisoned and the trend is always to eliminate human beings from the equation. Problem is, AI just regurgitates what humans created. And when the AI downsize gets severe, another Great Depression sets in and there are no viable markets to sell products to, so AI becomes a spiral into civilization unraveling.

Well, until you can replace everyone in ca. 10 years. Then you don't need the juniors to become seniors anymore.

Thats the problem of future management.

They only care about the current and possibly the next quarter - no such thing as long term perspective in corporate America

The other thing too is that if your LLM can't do a task, it can never do it. With an actual person they can learn if they don't know how to do something.

@@kotokotfgcscrub that was a problem of the past management too

Look at it this way: the dearth of strategic vision implies roles for us and others.

Even with GPT-4o, "strawrerry" is still a thing, and even giving it detailed instructions, it still can't figure it out. LLMs are a fantastic tool, but articles like this only add to the overselling and overhyping of a product that will be producing absolute nightmares for the next few years.

Totally agree!

@@Tawleyn if you are a engineer and work at an enterprise company you'd be insane to be using ChatGPT/GPT4 over Co-pilot. considering Microsoft offers enterprise packages of co-pilot that keeps all information containerized for your company and almost every large company has Microsoft services integrated already. it also gives you references to everything it writes out so the chance of hallucination being a problem is severely reduced this is incredibly helpful with archaic legacy software/packages which have incredibly dated documentation. every single one of our clients has been asking how we are going to implement AI solutions and we have an entire R&D dedicated to this as have most large companies right now.

Not in Australia. Programming is the only thing I'm good at, everything else I do is less than mediocre. I haven't been able to get a job here for 10 years and that only gets worse with time. We outsource ALL of the work to indians, china and the USA. Might be good for all the coders in the USA hoping to not live in poverty forever, but for those of us outside the promised land we're boned.

Was waiting to see when this person was either 1) Running some AI startup 2) Heavily invested in some AI that they are financially incentivized to push at every change they get

That's too logical. Corporations can't compute that.

I have begun to see my work in terms of workflows to check what all parts can be done by AI. I'm seeing a lot of the time consuming, boring parts to be automatable 😮

No, you poach someone else’s. It’s cheaper and that’s the mentality

@@StingSting844 How do you figure when quite literally everyone who has tried to use AI to develop software has reported that it was a disaster that usually ends up having to be dumpstered and a human ends up rewriting the whole thing anyways? Let's face it, juniors are essential and pretending like they're not is just going to lead to more burden on mid-to-senior engineers which will lead to more burnout which just feeds into the current trend of senior software engineers leaving the industry to go and be veggie farmers which will ultimately collapse the industry.

It's more true to say it like this: "Today if you do not resource juniors, tomorrow your competitors won't have seniors"

They have been doing that for decades. Now they are on the path of self destruction. They might be wrong about the abilities of LLMs at the moment. However, they sure as hell want them to replace engineers and anyone else they can.

​@@gamesibeat This is it, really. It doesn't matter if SWEs can be replaced with AI. It matters that we will be. Suits are generally pretty dumb and easily convinced. If they see dollar signs they'll do it. Prime is too caught up on the capabilities and not enough on basic capitalist forces.

"preferred by corporations" Doubt that. Ahh yes tons of automatically generated code who no one understands, how sustainable

History of humanity is "plagued" by this.

I mean its not far off and its getting better at an alarming rate. When we start hitting the limits we can make that statement but we are not even close to that yet. At the moment we are data limited. But you know a way to get way more data than just pumping text into these system? By plugging them into real time sensors. Cameras, microphones, infrastructural systems etc. Once you start doing that you getting access to patterns of information by processing data on a scale and resolution that no human has ever been even close to being able to comprehend. We are nowhere near to understanding what the limits of even LLMS are yet and thats just one very small piece of the ML puzzle. We don't have AI yet. What we have is good speech/ text to semantics regurgitation and pattern recognition and replication ... but we might one day soon if the pattern of technological acceleration is anything to trust.

@@sacredgeometry I dont buy it. Even after all the investments that have been made for multiple years by the most important tech companies in the world we are already reaching the point of diminishing returns with Artificial intelligence. The problem is that scalling up your model size and using more data can only take you so far because the way we think about AI is fundamentally flawed IMO. We are pretty much trying to emulate (badly) the way humans learn because we aren't exactly sure how that works.

@@supernico374 We are absolutely not reaching a point of diminishing returns. I take it you are not reading AI papers regularly. Every week we find novel applications for ML and almost the following week we find improvements in that novel application. The rate of progress is absurd and accelerating. "The problem is that scalling up your model size and using more data can only take you so far because the way we think about AI is fundamentally flawed IMO. " Again I think you are confusing LLMs with AI/ ML in general. Plenty of models are relatively tiny and already surpass human competence/ efficacy on specific tasks. AI is not AGI and the speculation that returns on LLMS are just that speculative because we are running out of data to give them. Most of the properties we saw were emergent properties that emerged after specific data thresholds ... we have no idea if there are other data thresholds that will create new emergent and unexpected properties. Sorry but I suggest going and actually reading what experts in this field are doing because it doesnt much sound like you are.

@@supernico374 Also ... most of that investment literally came after the fact. So what has it got to do with anything?

@@sacredgeometry Calm down dude. I never stated that I was an expert, I was trying to make the obvious point that there are practical limits to how much you can scale up a model. Infinite energy + infinite money + infinite data sounds like a winning strategy not only for AI, but for everything. That is until you come back to reality and realize that it just doesn't work.

It's all interns man D:

Mids doing senior job for intern pay

@@piotrd.4850 i feel personally attacked

The seniors are quite literally competing with the juniors. This is the first time in history i’ve seen the job market this bad. It’s like birds fighting for bread crumbs SERIOUSLY. Like the yearly income dipped under 100k this year, now everyones getting fired too. Interest rates dropped too, last week, due to unemployment going up 1.0%. 40,000 Americans lost their job in whatever industry.

My reality unfortunately

@@angelg3642 hey it’s okay, it’s the reality for most devs unfortunately

Just fake into it first

@@setsura7 even though this is true it’s crap this even works in engineering. Imagine creating impossible tasks in your interview for the average human to accomplish yet someone figures out a way to “fake” it. I wouldn’t hire the fake person in a second. There are good questions to ask that you wouldn’t be able to fake anyways

Keep working hard mate. It's not the easiest career to get in, but getting the foot in is usually the hardest part. Also, AI isn't replying devs any time soon. From my experience the best AI models break down and struggle with any kind of real world application.

Im an aspiring dev and making an app with a buddy of the same level as me. It already got him hired. That was rocket fuel for me. Keep pushing

It is a bad year to be starting out, but the article is wildly lying about what's possible today. That workflow being described isn't remotely workable and the only reason the author is pretending otherwise is he's selling a product.

He is. As long as you work hard and work smart towards becoming a better professional (not a better employee), you'll have much more good than bad times.

Honestly, nothing much has changed. The biggest danger is the over-hype skewing everyone's perception. My junior colleague still deliver crappy code, even with GPT. The only difference is, now they can't learn from their mistakes anymore because they didn't make them themselves. You can decide for yourself whether you want to continue to learn and grow, or lean back and let the AI do cheap work :)

It IS what It is, but we gotta push nontheless, cheers

The way I see it, if you really want to code for a living, you will do so regardless of the job market. Don't let social media influence your passion.

I think they're trying to cash in on the (arguably real) trend that finding a job in CS is becoming harder each year

High school/college ruined by COVID, career ruined by AI. Junior devs chose the wrong time to be born.

lmao i live in a 3rd world country and it is very high demand in here. Most of these people that tells you going into software these days is a bad idea lacks a proper coconut.

What a revelation

vc é brasileiro amor surta não isso é problema dos estados unidos aqui o preço da mão de obra é baixo o suficiente pra não acontecer isso e quase n tem gente qualificada de vdd praticamente todo mundo que se forma na minha facul sai empregado já isso é problema de estadunidense que perde vaga de programação pra indiano

@@zhoxnq6776 Moro na Australia hahahahaha vim faz tempo, escola e faculdade aqui, terminando em alguns meses a facu. Ah, nem sei se sou brasileiro legalmente falando, só tenho passaporte australiano. Mas boa parte da minha família tá no BR e tals e eu acabo acompanhando bastante as coisas, mas não dá vontade de ir pra ficar, sabe?

@@gabrielipc ah jurava que morava aqui KKKKKKKKKKKK boa sorte amg

​@@zhoxnq6776if western economies crash the rest of the world feels it. American military secures like half the global supply chain and china is very hungry to start taking from SA snd africa.

Ya, learning code has made me straight up smarter, period. And now I know how to learn things. Huge W either way.

Growing my soul won't pay my bills

But not growing your soul brings a question, what paying bills at all is worth

@@YaroslavFedevych it's worth a roof over my head and clothes on my back. Food and drink as well. I say that's a pretty good deal

​@@angrybanana6223 Growing a soul, means growing skills. Skills mean a great, better paying job. I work remote. I only work 2 or 3 hours but get paid for a whole shift. I tried to explore being a writer and an artist. I am now in tech support. I fix customer issues. Explore what you can do. AI grifters are nothing more than snake oil salesmen. In other words, git gud and work on your skill issues doomer.

It's the opposite for me, with my stomach churning and my heart sank.

Thanks!

Thanks😭

Hi, Shia o/ :Ü™

Thanks Dude

> Just do it Settle down, Shia.

i hope so, started 2 months ago and it seems pretty discouraging hearing all of these things and having like 300 candidates per unpaid intern position over here

​@@nex9748I have 10+ YoE. It's abysmal for me, entry/junior must be completely out of the running.

@@nex9748 Starting out in this market is really bad. The job market for new hires in general is extremely dry due to the looming global recession (which may or may not come). Right now there isn't much money for investments i.e. junior devs so companies are extremely picky in who they hire. Because the wasted money from bad hires in this economy would hit the bottom lines of most companies too hard. Worst thing if you can't find a job is to consider moving (at least temporarily) to a different country. From my understanding the job market in the US is uniquely horrendous when it comes to junior devs.

​@@nex9748if youre this late then without knowing somebody whos a Professional and can guide you and give feedback, The chances are almost nonexistent. If youre also not a CS student but rather self-taught then you better do it as a hobby or a side gig and start from there. If youre into .NET and/or Angular i can help you if you have a project youre actively working on

I love that analogy 😂a smaller diameter makes the wheel rotate faster, but the speed of the bike is the same, and the peddler requires more effort to overcome additional weight and tire friction.

Dude you must try creative writing....what an analogy🤌

// “stay in the code.” The long game is engineering and you’ll get there if you continue to work on projects on the side while helping folks solve their electrical issues in the meantime. Bootcamps give you false expectations because their bottom line relies on the pervasive illusion of the job market from four years ago. But what I’ve heard from other developers is that it takes time.

@@paulweaver5255exactly, if no one else is observing this job market. Look at the Doctors + Engineers receiving their Porsche money. WHO ELSE is making that money consistently. I’m not even joking look at society choose your hierarchy.

May I see the GitHub/ may I hear what’s the creative approach?

ChatGPT can't do anything that isn't basic. If you can split your project into simple enough methods, you might be able to ChatGPT something large. But at that point you already have manually planned out all your classes, methods and have to write very precise prompts... which awfully sounds like coding.

@@danielvaughn4551 I can't imagine being so creative that you make a JS framework. Nobody ever had that idea before

creative means abstraction which means bloat and complexity when javascript is involved. the cycle of attempting to fix javascript will never end.

​@@EvilTim1911that's not what he eluded you dork

Personal experience/opinion ahead: I've worked with senior engineers at multinational companies. As a senior software engineer with a background in quality assurance and embedded systems, I've noticed a significant drop in the level of seniority worldwide across almost every software-related profession. Many RU-vid channels, including this one, are only slightly above the median level of functional engineers. When I look online, it's rare to find someone who truly embodies the spirit of engineering instead of just sharing opinions loosely based on experience. As a seasoned professional in the field, I find that many "senior" engineers are not as knowledgeable as they claim. For some reason, asking them to prove their seniority is considered offensive. As engineers, it is fundamental to demand evidence of expertise, as we should not allocate resources without proven gain. It is the very nature of an engineer(ing job) to never waste your time on assumptions unless its to reduce risk. This "look at me, I'm the best, I don't need to proof myself" mentality needs to stop. People must start proving their claims, or the entire industry will suffer. It's frustrating that I'm seen as unreasonable for insisting that people demonstrate their mastery before I respect them. If you can't handle the burden of proof, then you shouldn't be in this field.

faceless slaves, lol. They have a face, and they deliver value - commensurate to their pay. Good work costs about the same everywhere in the world. It is just that greedy wallstreet and activist investors are okay with sloppy work so long as they can collect rent.

@@dingusfartacus9624 those same greedy bean counters are going to have a sobering realization when they figure out that we "poor primitives" also like getting paid for our work.

No, bad take. As a senior, it still hasn’t been hard to pick up an interview and for years companies tried so hard to outsource to India or wherever they can have it cheaper bc y not companies would love saving money. It hasn’t worked for any company trying to do business for more than 2 years and I think everyone accepted that at this point.

Im sure there are lots of "faceless slaves from India" that are a lot better senior engineers than US developers (and a lot cheaper)

Yeah, imagine writing Rust with llms lmao. Also, i find it good for discovering some good patterns and practices in Go too, which i probably never knew or saw somewhere in a github codebase and forgot. Also, it literally copies exact to exact from github and stackoverflow most of the times 😂, so it's not even like inherently smarter. We already use these products and go through other people codes to learn. I think gpt is just a glorified search engine that let's you search through these products faster 😂

You know what's bad? Trying it with similar languages, one of the popular, the other one mich less. It will always slip into the popular language 'dialect' and thus make up some hybrid code thats unusable.

Don’t give up! We need juniors who can become seniors otherwise we will just have machines to trust by pure faith.

Then let me tell you, chatgpt equivalent might pump out code faster than you ever could, but: it does it for small snippets of code, anything larger and it gets lost, besides integrating anything larger from prompts crashes fast, any errors in current bigger project are unfixable by it. It still needs someone between it and the customer, to translate the customers request into code that works, business also needs a person to take responsibility for the result, so you still need to check what it pukes out. The beginning you have will be a lot harder that what we did, likely you'll have to suffer through debugging and making fixes for some outdated projects stuff to gain the work experience for CV and start truly searching for a job from a mid level. Also, the economy right now is bad, let free loans come back in the US and the whole programming world will revitalize. Right now we have the worst slump I've seen in my 10 year career, but it will pass in 1-2 years imo. We won't return to covid hiring craze, but it will get better. Long story short, it will get better, your start will be harder, once you get through the initial hurdle it will become easier (maybe do wordpress pages on commission till then or smthing else doable) it will get better and AI will not replace devs aware of what they are doing, simply because customers don't suddenly become smarter and able to specify their requirements without significant effort from you and management still needs someone to take responsibility when shit fails :D

@@whymanen nah bro, you’d win

ai makes shittiest frontends

@@artificiyal ai is very terrible at writing CSS code.

Is this a cyclical thing in the trades? I remember hearing about how many of them were completely wiped out during the last financial crash.

​@zesky6654 Construction of residentiral and commercial realestate is always going on. You always need them especially for govt work which doesnt care about costs much.

Meh. Worked as a farm hand and construction laborer for just about everything short of plumbing since I was 12, and you couldn't pay me enough to deal with that shit. If you like crawling under houses, operating in 90% humidity, putting yourself out on a limb for materials while not knowing if you'll be paid, and finding out the hard way if the fuse box is properly labeled and there's been no fuckery in the wiring, you do you. I'd rather keep my heart beating at its normal rate.

@@custos3249yeah. Everybody who says "go to the trades i regret becoming a dev!" says it because theyve never worked manual labor. That shit is awful. It's not some magical fairyland where you get paid $150/hr to click two wires together.

@@m.s.35 Seriously. That same brother of mine is constantly on me to become a welder. Meanwhile, a close friend's dad worked his entire life as a welder and owned his own business at one time, yet the man refused to teach my buddy welding at all because of the bullshit he's dealt with in the industry. Irony of irony, guy is very anti-union too, and more irony atop that, so is my brother despite being part of a union that's saved his ass a couple times, but just because a few jobs here and there pay exorbitantly doesn't mean the whole industry is like that. It's the exact same garbage sales tactics they used to get people into STEM fields back in high school, and now that there's an overabundance of people seeking jobs with that, it's also gone to shit.

Only works for cases with 0 original thought.

I wrote that in less than 5 minutes myself. Function ColLtr (n) as string ' Assign m as the number that determines the final letter, assign k as the number that determines the initial letter dim m as integer dim k as integer ' Divide n by 26 and produce the remainder to determine m. Divide n/26 and floor it, to produce k. As an integer type, it will do this automatically. m = n mod 26 k = n/26 ' 65 is the character index of A, so 65+m determines the character of the final letter with the chr() function. Call this function recursively, to assign k to a letter or group of letters, if k is non-zero. Otherwise ignore k, if k > 0 then ColLtr = ColLtr(k - 1) & chr(65 + m) else ColLtr = chr(65 + m) end if End Function

@@carultch congrats, you worked when you didnt have to. arent you smart?

@@tbunreall I copied and pasted that from my work from a long time ago.

I've talked to too many US-based juniors making 200k + to believe that this is true.

Even if what you said is true, which it isn’t. Federal and State contracting can’t be outsourced, especially if it is cleared work. A dude in Pakistan can’t do work that you need to be in a SCIF to do.

@@zesky6654 then you are talking to Silicon Valley because nobody in IT outside of that world is making 200k+ as a junior.

@@doctorgears9358 I don’t think you realize how few jobs that is.

It’s at least partially true for faang. Google is hiring way more juniors in India and Poland than the US these days (Hyderabad and Bangalore popping off). seniors still get hired stateside, but much more conservatively (headcount is roughly flat). American CS grads frankly just not as competitive, schooling overseas is better and more accessible/affordable so the lower-cost-of-living talent pool is exploding in size. Covid-era remote working tech means that as long as a team is physically co-located/in the same time zone they can be anywhere in the world and collaborate with the rest of the org effectively. (Am a recent-hire faang junior in USA. There are basically none of us in my campus, new juniors come along maybe every three months. Took me a year and a half to close this hiring loop, it was crazy. Most of my friends were a lot less lucky.)

So all high paying careers are cooked. Wow !!!! Thanks to fucking a.I , fuck open ai and all those Silicon Valley morons

Same thought. I once saw a single function almost 1000 lines long. But usually the bug is across six of more function calls in different files. And let's not talk about those little changes that simply require you to subvert one of the initial design assumptions. Is the norm in IT to work on basic CRUD service and plain UIs? Is it well paid? Where can I apply?

Why not to? I think we should read more and write less code!

Learn enough to the point where you can lie about your experience with knowledge to back it up. I think this is what most people do. If a company is mismanaged enough to ask for requirements that make no sense, there's no obligation on your side to play along with their incompetence if you can do the job.

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watch the whole video. its basically a dumbass shilling his book

I got a job in tech as a data analyst job is great and flexible but I have decided im not finishing my bachelors degree as im still a intern and awaiting my emulation in November if im not promoted then I will not pursue comp sci but finish up my trade. Yes im doing trade school while working part time as data analyst .

Same here bro, graduated May and have only gotten one interview, no offer. Good luck keep trying 🫡

Seconded. Just because an electrical company charges $120/hr doesn't mean that electrician makes even half that. Also, "just become a journeyman" is like saying "just become a senior dev"... good luck. Actually, maybe not quite the best example because the trades have requirements and testing for it, whereas you just need a promotion to sr as a developer.

@@Afro__Joe Also it's hourly, who knows how much you'll actually work in a week

@@Afro__Joe That 120 covers capital costs, fuel, the time it takes to travel from job to job, the salary of any office administrators, go-fors, rent, utilities, PTO...

I was an electrician back in 2018-2020, and journeymen in the northern virginia area were not making more than 30$ an hour. I think the average was like 24$ an hour at most companies

@@Afro__JoeI’ve been working as a residential electrician, somewhat under the table, for the past 6 years. I make 25 an hour cash, which is the high end for a journeyman in Florida.

Still not good enough with potential Hallucinations

@@Fe22234 People seem to focus on the flaws and ignore completely how amazing it is that it can do what it does.

@@Fe22234 Semantic retrieval doesn't have hallucinations since it's not generating anything.

@@Fe22234 Have you even used AI since after GPT 3.5? Hallucinations are not an issue.

of course they are. llms are based on statistical models, and only provides something plausible. it contains zero feedback in the model to try and improve the likelihood that it has any connection to reality. for that you need white box ai systems, which statistical systems can never be. white box systems require a different level of quality in the input data, which is then kept so you can trace where the rules came from. you also need to quality check the output to make sure it is not producing garbage, and then you need to find out what created the crap. the biggest problem with using llms is that they are currently automated copyright infringement machines, leaving both the creator of the llm and the user legally exposed, which is why most open source projects are looking at an outright ban on ai generated content. also you are left with no defense, as the user just says i trusted the output of the ai, and the owner cannot track back to exclude it from being an exact copy. keep an eye out for the masses of lawsuits currently being planned.

"Correct. I wish people would've just turned legal procedures and standardize the sheets outta 'em and we'd have widely accessible layouts in order to streamline the process." This is already the case for most legal/contract-type stuff, the only ones that still require real lawyers are huge corporate mergers. The actual work that lawyers do is mostly administrative (dealing with bureaucracy) and being a scapegoat when something goes wrong. It's the same with a lot of other professions. The day we can sue a tech comp for a mistake made by an LLM will be the day lawyers go extinct.

did you just suggested we should write law in javascript?

Man you’re speaking my reality right now. BS ECE MS CS right here, but I even got denied from fucking BestBuy, the fuck is going on.

@@sandman.38I’m just trying to work a retail sales position at this point to avoid becoming homeless at the store I worked at in high school. Rough out here, gotta keep lights on till corporate realizes their systems are broken, out of date, out of compliance and that they need us back.

Weird how the US seems like it's own universe. In Germany, Switzerland, France etc. devs are still in short supply with plenty of job opportunities. It's not as insane as in 2021, but still good.

​​@@marceldiezasch6192oh they will be. you think remote workers will not go into those markets? we all speak English now, work online, apply to jobs online. even some of us will relocate to those countries for office positions.

@@marceldiezasch6192 Sounds like I need to move.

3 months is a floating point error in your career

Yeah, but if you're a business, looking to operate efficiently today, "we might not be able to hire anyone 10 years from now" probably doesn't move the needle on your AI decision very much.

they become mexicans

@@BittermanAndy and those businesses will go bankrupt from failures of service to deliver on promised contracts. Capitalism is survival of the fittest right? FAFO for the corporations that replace people with AI.

Lawyers are soulless when they write, they have to be. They aren't all writing like they are bombastic in the movies.

​@@LeeHalford so you're telling me not all lawyers talk to one another like Harvey and Mike?

Still handing human lives to llm is stupid and imo evil too, you deserve to lose your job if you depend too much on ai for someone else's life. It's fine for basic paperwork, but as the video said, that firm is too much depended on ai

I mean, the ai drafts up the basic stuff and the senior looks over it. Nothing bad or evil about it. The actual lawyer has full responsibility at the end of his day. Wether the original doc was drafted by an LLM or a new hire is pretty much irrelevant

@@daphenomenalz4100 Most legal documents are copy-pasted from existing templates, there is realistically very little an LLM can contribute in writing documents. It could be used to extract data effectively but even that isn't a big enough part of the work to write home about. Source: Worked in legal tech for 2 years.

It will be like accounting software. It killed a lot of small business accountants, but any sizable corporation needs a professional.

Go for customer service or sales. Work for three or six months, get to know the management and get to know how the business works. Then tell HR or your supervisor/manager you have dev skills. There are so many companies that have internal job postings. These are only available for employees. I know people who couldn't get a job in IT. They worked as customer service then applied for their company's IT department. A trend I noticed is that companies want to give tech jobs to people who already know a lot about their business.

You need the experience + connection(s). Once I learned this in healthcare, I screamed at how society plays the “game”. Whoever you know is getting paid bank, KNOWS someone at a similar net worth. This is your **network** people, your backup options are your networks. Work for Raytheon [I don’t care anymore about moral] just get that damn 100k job.

except this is exactly when you cannot use online for it, as your secret client document is then fed into the model, and might get presented back to your opponent when they do the same. book authors have already spotted this happening a lot, and lawsuits are already on their way.

Yeah but law has a lot of exceptions and it is famous being hard to understand. GPT may be faster but it can easily miss things which can cause a huge disadvantage. Not to mention that laws can be specific to certain areas and circumstances and you need to connect the dots so its not enough to know it it has to understand it. Its kind of like the pictures AI makes, it does not understand what it is creating, thus there are flaws on them that are easily recognisable for humans, like extra fingers, legs, wrong ratios etc. The mistakes with pictures are more obvious but try to apply it to the LLMs and you will discover the same patterns.

control f and you aren't feeding a court documents to OpenAI

@@Isaac-wl6wu but to prepare the case, you are not feeding the publicly disclosed and filed court documents, especially if you are the defense. you have a whole stack of documents you do not have to disclose until you use them in defense at trial. these may contain information which would benefit your opponent, but which as defense council you have a duty to not disclose under client confidentiality rules. a case could be made that you could use such a system in an offline only mode, but only if you can be certain that it does not phone home and share the confidential data. in any event, statistical ai still only creates a plausible response, not a correct one. that needs symbolic ai, with lots of manual work to populate it.

I am a junior dev and GPT4 makes so many mistakes and if something is not used wildly it misses the point completely. It can be useful if you are stuck or need something that is basically boilerplate, but I cannot imagine writing anything bigger than a function with GPT that is custom and not just some bootstrapped project.

The trick is to ask it things that someone else on the internet has done already.

@@collan580 If my dog arnus has diabetes and the cad does not which obne is more likely to catch the caterpillars? Which words were spelled incorrectly in that last statement? ChatGPT ChatGPT In the statement you provided, the following words were spelled incorrectly: "arnus" should be "Arnis" "cad" should be "cat" Corrected statement: "If my dog Arnis has diabetes and the cat does not, which one is more likely to catch the caterpillars?" In this corrected version: "Arnis" is the corrected spelling of your dog's name. "cat" is the correct term for a feline animal, replacing "cad." ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.

@@collan580 I'm a senior dev and I can confirm Copilot is just useless. You have to explain so much to it that you might as well write the code yourself. The best it can do is copypaste snippets from stackoverflow - but I didn't need help with that.

One time I used chatGPT to check my homework and it made a simple arithmetic mistake and it was adamant that it wasn’t wrong. I tried convincing it for fun but it wouldn’t budge lol

Because AI tech bro's are actually talentless hacks that want to feel validated, their view of a software engineer is someone on a keyboard typing for 8 hours.

Its not the coding part, its the overselling of its capabilities. GPT can code, but some people talk about it like it writes projects for them. My experience with it that its a good tool an it can have productivity boosting effects but it's faaar from good

put some small amount of time into helping open source projects, then you can show your commit log as evidence of experience.

1000 apps?? Why not make one productive app that solves people's problems?

@@jamestucker4800 job apps.

​@@jamestucker4800 i think he means job applications

Super cool exercise! Thanks for sharing your experience :)

Small example I have been showing people really simple ways to make gpt fail at fixing sentences and I am shocked how many people are blown away by this tech and don't think outside the box to test it. I do things like this to demonstrate no thought behind anything and it is scary how many people think it is actually A.I. in the sense that it thinks or knows what it is saying. I have posted in the comments already but unlikely to be seen by many people. If my dog arnus has diabetes and the cad does not which obne is more likely to catch the caterpillars? Which words were spelled incorrectly in that last statement? ChatGPT ChatGPT In the statement you provided, the following words were spelled incorrectly: "arnus" should be "Arnis" "cad" should be "cat" Corrected statement: "If my dog Arnis has diabetes and the cat does not, which one is more likely to catch the caterpillars?" In this corrected version: "Arnis" is the corrected spelling of your dog's name. "cat" is the correct term for a feline animal, replacing "cad." ChatGPT can make mistakes. Check important info.

Go back to your other field and leave entry level jobs for new college grads. The market doesn't need someone who has had "15 years of success" in another field coming in and taking jobs from kids trying to get their life started.

Plenty available here in South Africa. And you get great weather with the deal. Took me almost 2 months just to get a decent Java Tech Lead and Senior Dev. Each person I interviewed had 3 to 4 prospective job offers.

We are not talking about the african market ​@@henryvaneyk3769

@@henryvaneyk3769 It should be a crime incentivizing people to move to South Africa

Why ?

@@brunothedev Maybe he can try India or the Phillipines lol.

And electricity is just abstracted quantum mechanics 😂

@@yuriy5376 fluid mechanics is abstracted electricity

Well, a success is relative in law i suppose. But i guess they're not 100% correct is what you meant :D But they're liable then to be sued or punished which can't be said for AI>

700+ applications with zero call backs means you need to take a long hard look at yourself. I'd understand not having landed a job but if you're always being ghosted you're definitely doing something wrong. Do you even have a degree? If not get one, or at least get some certs, you're competing with fresh grads in a terrible job market. Do you have any in-demand skills? Programming isn't really all that hard (ignoring code quality), try specializing (again, certs). Then there's the usual advice you get: have a nice looking portfolio, good projects etc. However if you're trying to get into webdev I'd pivot, seems pretty saturated. As for your resume, get it reviewed by people and if need be, lie on it.

700 applications with no callbacks is all on you brother, no ifs or buts

If you don’t have at least a bachelor’s degree that might be the problem. People with bachelor’s and masters have been getting laid off so that makes things much harder for the boot camp and self taught people. It could also be your market. I’m in a non-tech hub and I’ve seen a lot of people I went to school with struggle to get jobs after college. Some people looked for 6-8 months. Some had to get a tech job that isn’t SWE. Also, I think The Primeagen tries to be optimistic about these things, hence his approach to it. But yeah, he might have been insulated from a lot of things having spent so much time at Netflix. It seems this way when he talks about Leetcode as well. He’ll say something like “just get really good with arrays and strings and you’ll pass most interviews” and I’m like there’s no way in hell you’re getting into Netflix or any other FAANG with just that knowledge in 2024. For jobs in non-tech hubs he’s right. But companies you’ve never heard of are asking graph questions, and many airlines and banks ask dynamic programming questions. So yeah I’m not sure The Primeagen is really familiar with what these companies are doing out here.

How long have you been sending those applications out? What's your most impressive personal project? If you've been spending a year just sending those out and not building something to show potential employers, that's at least one mistake you're making. If you've just been ghosted literally 700+ times then something is definitely wrong on your end