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6nk06@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

As an older computer guy, I can relate and would never prevent someone from getting a certification in a manual job.

It’s a bit of a shitshow for software engineers in France. Most job offers are about fullstack/web stuff, the kind of software that is the most easily generated by AI.

AI is not destroying software jobs yet, but companies are definitely laying the ground for automation and layoffs, whether they do it on purpose or not.

I’m looking for more industrial job offers and it’s a bit hard to find. I could go freelance and work remotely, but I have never done this before and I lack the time to do that. It was bad ten years ago but I still had hope, now I will get the first job that accepts me.

Sorry for the rant.

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AbsolutelyNotAVelociraptor@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I think there’s a lot of people not realizing that the AI works better (as in “hallucinates less and it’s mediocrity is better accepted”) in office jobs than in specialized blue-collar jobs.

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AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
As a DevOps guy, automation has already greatly impacted software development. I’ve made a good career from being the guy that makes it so. However we’ve always had enough growth that it hasn’t noticeable reduced the number of jobs.

I’m ambivalent about AI. Companies clearly want it to reduce jobs but so far it is only good enough to be a tool to make developers slightly more efficient. I have a hard time believing that replacing developers could be successful without huge improvements in the technology

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- super_user_do@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  Developers who rely on AI are up to 19% slower than users who don’t use AI because AI needs constant babysitting
  
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super_user_do@feddit.it ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
But as a web developer I gotta also point out that usually AIs just can’t work decently within actual codebases of already existing software, and leaving an AI to do all the job usually means having to deal with shitty code that barely works or situations where things look like they’re working but actually isn’t properly. Moreover, even desktop software tends to bloat inevitably. The latest example is the Windows Notepad that takes 30mb just to open an empty .txt file. You also can’t work with AI proficiently with technologies that aren’t widely used

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