I have a strong feeling, that someone who characterises himself as a “metaverse and web developer” that is interested in “super intelligence” might have other reasons why people do not consider him.
Don’t get me wrong,he might be a totally nice fella and IT outside a narrow field of healthcare IT is not my field. But this guys makes all my spidey HR/management senses tingle hard.
Jup, something is missing in this story.
I also have a job in that neighborhood and I could not be replaced by AI. I’m sympathetic to him in the sense that this is a shitty time to be looking for work for a number of reasons, but it seems in the realm of possibility that this guy is a shitty developer who made bank of the fact that for a while companies were desperate for anyone to increase IT headcount, and now finds himself unable to compete with the shitty output of AI.
I’ve 100% worked with developers worse than AI, but not many and if it were up to me they would be retrained into some other career where they can make more of a contribution.
You want to blame it on AI CTS scanning? Yep. Totally believable. AI generated technical questions? Sure.
But because AI is coding circles around you? Bruh…
I think it’s less likely this has anything to do with skill, and more likely this is a company looking for an excuse to cut a highly paid position.
So the author of the blog post that the article is based off of actually interacted with some comments over on Hacker News and there were some pretty interesting revelations - such as his resume having Vibecoding as the first skill listed on it and living/looking for jobs on the East Coast with a website sounding like he’s on the West Coast among other things.
I guess the media saw his blog post as a quick means of driving clicks through a clickbait headline. That’s not to say that the market isn’t hot trash at the moment, but I personally doubt Engineers are being replaced by AI.
Shitty media’s greatest trick is cherry-picking and anecdotal “evidence”.
Yeah, not surprised. An experienced software engineer in the US won’t have to do unskilled labour unless there’s something else massive going on with them.
Earlier this year, the CEO of Anthropic Dario Amodei predicted that more software jobs will soon go by the wayside. By September, he said AI will be writing 90% of the code; moreover, “in 12 months, we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code,” he tells the Council on Foreign Relations.
Sure, Jan
This is drawing lines between the job market and AI that probably aren’t there. We’re just in the beginning of an economic downturn.
An engineered one to finally end the middle class by grabbing assets at fire-sale prices so everyone has to rent, while simultaneously being able to further raise rents on account of all the new demand.
More than that, “software engineer” has been drifting towards “software technician” for a while now. If you don’t have any additional physics, math or engineering specialty on top of software skills, things are pretty crowded. Anyone can learn to write decent software. It’s really never been a traditional academic topic for the most part, and AI is definitely making that worse.
Let me guess - Silicon Valley-like company? Focused on new fads, long or short, eager to adopt any new trend for themselves?
Yes
The only part “AI” plays in this is giving employers the sensation that they can replace workers. Which companies that are building on trends, especially silicon valley ones, are much more likely to fall for. And I’m very sure that the “800” applications were sent to very similar companies.
In my last job search, I sent out more than a thousand applications across multiple industries, got one interview, didn’t get the job. It’s very plausible.
Getting ghosted like fuck was the norm before this nonsense started… he just didnt notice because he wasnt looking… Just look at his linkedin and tell me you’d hire someone who’s position is ‘vibecoder’
Sounds like he should jump over to adult entertainment.
I sent out ~20 applications, got four interviews, got two jobs
What platform were you searching on?
Multiple ones, and directly through people I know.
Yeah, I’ve just gotten to the point of trying to network instead of applying for things that don’t exist.
The whole article aside, looking for jobs really sucks. It’s painful. Honestly, I’m probably just weak, but job searching sends me into a spiral of depression that lasts weeks.
universal experience
You’re not weak. It’s genuinely a dehumanizing, exhausting experience that seems to get worse year after year. I’m barely in my 30s, I’ve been laid off twice and had to relocate once. Each search was worse than the last.
Thanks for the kind words. I guess it’s just very difficult to fit into whatever mold these companies are looking for. It feels like they want a unicorn or a robot. And if you don’t somehow match their very specific buzzwords, your resume doesn’t get looked at.
It makes me feel like I’m not enough. I’m quite uncertain as to how I’ll make enough of a living going forward in the future, but I guess I shouldn’t worry about it too much. Stuff usually works out right? Haha
Not that you asked, but my advice is to shoot your shots wherever you find them. If the odds are bad either way, might as well aim for the jobs that will keep you sane and make things better for yourself and others.
This sounds shockingly familiar. The job market is a scam these days, and I’ve been homeless for a year and a half. AI hype is just going to make it worse.
