Post #2391507
2025-11-20 00:35 UTC
@Routhinator@tenforward.social I honestly don't have a good answer here. I also avoided all AI tools. I got laid off last October and every place that got me past the resume-review stage was all in on proving my AI chops.
All of them.
Of which I had zero experience, and minimal willingness to skill up. Some of this is because I came up through Operations so am not actually a Software Engineer — I write code, but employers want people who think halting state problems are cool and have firey opinions on type-safety. Not actually being a SWE meant I had zero luck getting past the very first interview.
So I retired.
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@sysadmin1138@ngmx.com 2025-11-20 00:39
@Routhinator@tenforward.social What I learned is that if you want to stay employed in the tech industry, you need to find what your AI tolerance is. It's hard to avoid in some coding toolchains, since those are mandated by employers. Maybe look to how companies are using it in their shipped products.