• queerlilhayseed ( queerlilhayseed@piefed.blahaj.zone ) English
    88·
    17 days ago

    We’ve been predicting the demise of the coding career since the dawn of the coding career, but even if it’s not dying, being proficient in coding and becoming proficient in one other trade is a good way to find opportunities to make software that makes that trade easier. The bar for quality in trade-specific software is shockingly low and money can be made in those niches.

    • Wildmimic ( Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus ) English
      9·
      17 days ago

      Yep, the real money you make when being able to combine 2 different skills, because the amount of people having studied exactly this combination will always be a very small group. Coding and a learned trade is one of the rarer combinations - most coders (in my experience) acquire management or business skills to climb the corporate ladder.

    • douz0a0bouz ( douz0a0bouz@midwest.social ) English
      14·
      17 days ago

      I know this is a haha community, but software isn’t dead. Most corps are going to insist you use AI. Especially as a junior dev. Look for places that say things like “engineers make the decisions”. You need to find a place where you can get experience learning how software is built, even if the bot does the typing. People have been getting laid off and that sucks but software devs aren’t going anywhere. Ai writes bad code. They need us to make sure bad code doesn’t go to production.

      • myrmidex ( myrmidex@slrpnk.net ) 
        11·
        17 days ago

        They need us to make sure bad code doesn’t go to production.

        what worries me: that’s not something a junior can do.

        I see it with the local lawyers office, they have stopped hiring junior lawyers and are replacing the junior’s tasks by AI. Fine for now, but I wonder what happens when the others retire, who’s going to replace them if no juniors are trained?

      • w3dd1e ( W3dd1e@lemmy.zip ) 
        5·
        17 days ago

        I got a degree in development a few years ago and couldn’t find a job. There was nothing out there for a junior dev. I was persistent for about a year then, I just gave up.

        Now I work in Commercial Real Estate but I can see this industry is about to be decimated by AI also. They are slowly starting to figure it out and build AI tools that do their job.

    • in_the_dark_forest ( in_the_dark_forest@feddit.org ) 
      10·
      16 days ago

      Don’t let it get you down. You need to remember that this whole AI hype / AI will replace everyone is coming from people who invested a lot of money into it and really need it to succeed now.

      Many also have an oversimplified view of what the discipline of software engineering includes in addition to little understanding how different types of AI work.

      Besides, skillsets you learned in SE can easily applied to other ‘non-virtual’ fields. Many people suck at providing clear and specific instructions or requirements; businesses also have many real world processes that need to be optimized; identifying problems in a system (you first need to see there is an issue, if you want to ask an AI to fix it for you in the next step); being able to break down and tackle large, complex topics; … I could probably come up with many more points.

  • red_green_black ( green_red_black@slrpnk.net ) English
    5·
    15 days ago

    Went to college to become a programer. Now going to graduate with a literal dead degree (no joke my degree stopped being offered so I am the last to get it) and work the warehouse and food service, along with Uber driving and delivering as I try to get a career in bartending instead.

    Edit: 50k in federal loans FYI

    • tinfoilhat ( tinfoilhat@lemmy.ml ) English
      4·
      15 days ago

      Can I just say, I graduated a decade ago and have no idea what you must be going thru.

      However, I want to maybe give you a little hope. A college degree is just a piece of paper. I’ve worked with software engineers that were former teachers, artists, and biologists. Think of the college degree as proof that you’re capable of learning.

      All that AI has really done is increased the amount of work people are expected to get done, so I don’t think there’s NO hope for you in software engineering as a whole. You could pivot into another industry that just requires a math or compsci degree. Or keep trying your hand at software engineering.

      Good luck

  • mcv ( mcv@lemmy.zip ) 
    3·
    16 days ago

    I’m staying here, but my son who wanted to become a programmer has now decided to study for maritime officer. I don’t know when AI will take over ships.