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chellewalker@lemmy.ca 1 day agoWhich let me tell you, was real f-ing fun to have to watch unfold during my last year studying for my IT degree. The degree I went for thinking it would be the kind of thing least likely to be automated.
gandalf_der_12te@discuss.tchncs.de 1 day ago
bus_factor@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I started my degree in 2002, two years after the dotcom bust. I figured the market would rebound within five years. Right after I graduated (but thankfully after I got a job) the housing bubble burst. There’s always something happening, but software engineering is still needed and we still make bank. Being unlucky with the timing will set back your career, but probably won’t end it.
passepartout@feddit.org 1 day ago
A lot of younger folks in IT, like myself, have been on the brink of exhaustion since 2022.
Sure, there was the “obsoletion” of PHP, Java, plain JS, etc. before, in favor of one of the JS frameworks that get released every other day, etc.
But this one feels different. They are trying to sell you the idea of everything related to sw development and programming will get “outsourced” to a computer. The problem is, LLMs can’t do the necessary thinking to build resilient systems as they can’t “think”, neither effective nor efficient. They can be great tools when used the right way, but that’s about it.