Post #2502667
2026-05-13 17:10 UTC
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@Moonguide@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 17:40
A friend of mine graduated some years ago from a good uni. He transitioned quickly from actually writing code to just reviewing AI written code. He hates it, and its got to the point he has automated the reviewing process as well. He’s floated the idea of getting into nursing from how much he hates it. He used to be very passionate about it.
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@JoMiran@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 17:48
Transition from code to data.
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@nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 2026-05-13 17:55
Consider research or academia. Or on the other end, go into setting up networks & hardware. Computer science isn’t going away. Computer programming is.
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@eldavi@lemmy.ml 2026-05-13 18:01
i wonder about fresh graduates and how they're going to survive this job market. i graduated with an electrical engineering related degree, but it was immediately after the dot com bubble burst so there were no jobs in my field to be had, but i got lucky and found one doing IT and (at the time) there was still strong a enough demand for software development that my IT experience was deemed "good enough" to allow me to enter the field. 22 years later, i got burned out by the culture that software engineers tend to gravitate towards and pivoted back to IT at a non-profit that serves lower & middle income students. i've had to work with some of them as part of work-study sort of thing and every single one of them is sharp af -- much more than i was at that age and especially so when it comes to ai -- but i see every single one of them (justifiably) freak out about their prospects and i feel for them based on my own experiences. the colleagues at my new firm have been doing this for 30+ years and have never faced layoffs, downsizing, restructuring, etc. and their callous attitude towards fresh grads wrestling this specter is weighing on me just as much as the dominant i've-got-mine-fuck-you type of culture that software engineers tend to adopt when in the field.