IT/Software career thread: Invert binary trees for dollars.

Nija

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Khane said:
I don't see a future where it completely takes over to that point, even 10 years down the road, for the exact reasons you already outlined.

What I think is more likely to happen is, it starts to move that way (already is actually), products actually stop functioning, companies start bleeding customers and nobody in said company can fix or correct this. A new and exciting field of consultants and contractors called something innovative like "AI auditors" springs up solely to come unfuck companies like this (or those companies die).

I'm very seriously considering starting one of these "AI auditing" companies. Which is really just a group of developers/engineers that actually understands OOP and can get codebases back into, at the very least, workable states. And charging big bucks for this. But I think we are still a few years out from this being lucrative (and I am certain it will be incredibly lucrative)
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I was thinking about some kind of SRE consultancy where I’d offer some kind of quick turnaround plan to actually go to market with whatever AI slop they cooked up. And then professional services on top of that to get things where they need to be code wise.

Want to team up?
 
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Kirun

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I really like that he has built this world view in his head that we had luxurious, stable, six figure jobs without stress or overtime. The ones he saw in those Tiktok videos with "a day in the life of a ${TECH_STARTUP}" with the fruit bars and ping pong tables. If that is your world view of how jobs in IT are, then I can totally get that he's angry now that he perceives those people complaining about being replaced by AI.

Only that was a fucking fantasy, and those girls were the first to be fired once the startup money dried up.
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Plenty of high-pay professions are stressful. Surgeons are stressed. Pilots are stressed. Traders are stressed. None of them built an entire cultural posture around telling other workers their jobs deserved to disappear because "the market." Also, let's be honest: the complaint isn't "you had no stress." The complaint is that tech workers (as a class, culturally) spent years minimizing or mocking other people's instability while confidently asserting their own indispensability.

The "those girls were the first to be fired" line is doing exactly the same thing you're accusing others of - picking a convenient subset and pretending it represents the whole. Startup marketing staff getting axed early doesn't somehow prove the broader claim wrong. If anything, it reinforces the point: when capital tightens, the industry sheds roles aggressively and without sentiment, just like every other sector that was told to "adapt". And notice how the definition keeps shifting again. First it was "you imagined cushy jobs." Then it's "okay, some people had them, but they weren't real tech." Next it’ll be "those layoffs don't count because the company was mismanaged." The goalposts might as well be on wheels at this point.

So no, this isn't anger at a fantasy. It's criticism of a long-running narrative that said tech was "different", smarter, safer, etc. And that everyone else should stop whining, reskill, and stop being a lame part of the "unskilled" labor caste. Now that the same uncertainty has arrived for the "skilled", the demand is for exemption. That's the contradiction being pointed out.
 
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TJT

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Are you willfully trying to conflate "project managers" that were useless 20 something cuties that happened to work at a tech company with people who were actually paid to write code and engineer products?

Marketing never gets axed first don't be ridiculous. What generally happens is non-revenue producing product teams are axed completely. If any good engineers happened to be on those teams they'll be hired back quickly. The administrative people there wont be though.
 
Control

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Kirun said:
tech workers (as a class, culturally) spent years minimizing or mocking other people's instability
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Is this tech worker class in the room with you right now?
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