Yep the boom bust continues.
Technus@lemmy.zip 3 days ago
Kinder, the Brookings fellow, said she worries that companies soon will simply eliminate the entire bottom rung of the career ladder.
What the fuck do they think is gonna happen when the current seniors start to retire? Are they just betting that AI is gonna be good enough to replace all of them then?
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
mesamunefire@piefed.social 3 days ago
traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
Cue all these companies in 5-20 years’ time having to completely rewrite their software stacks because they have no fucking clue how any of it works anymore.
Thats 20-80 fiscal quarters away, an eternity in capitalist time. During most of which the leadership that chose this path can hit the eject button, open their golden parachute, and utterly avoid any personal consequence of having looted the future potential of the company for a few years of bigger bonuses for themselves.
Much like how politicians have been directing entire countries in recent years
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
I’ve been warning colleagues and leadership about this for a couple years now. It baffles me that people don’t understand they’re hollowing out the whole discipline of computer science and engineering, at large. The knock-on effects are going to be - and i know this sounds hyperbolic, but I stand by it - incalculable.
I guess I’ll just retire in a decade as an Elder Techpriest…? Who even knows at this point.
ShawiniganHandshake@sh.itjust.works 3 days ago
Yes. That is literally the plan.
In a few years, I am expecting a huge consulting boom like the COBOL / FORTRAN boom that happened during Y2K.