I know this is a haha community, but software isn't dead. Most corps are going to insist you use AI. Especially as a junior dev. Look for places that say things like "engineers make the decisions". You need to find a place where you can get experience learning how software is built, even if the bot does the typing. People have been getting laid off and that sucks but software devs aren't going anywhere. Ai writes bad code. They need us to make sure bad code doesn't go to production.

[–] fleck@lemmy.world 1 points 4 hours ago

I am a junior dev and I am not earning that great, but at least my company is not forcing me to use AI, which from some reports I have read is quite the exception. They do mention it a lot ("just let claude generate this or that driver") but they actually understand when I say I dislike using it because I need to learn this stuff and build experience, which simply does not happen when I offload my brain, like some do.

[–] myrmidex@slrpnk.net 16 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

They need us to make sure bad code doesn’t go to production.

what worries me: that's not something a junior can do.

I see it with the local lawyers office, they have stopped hiring junior lawyers and are replacing the junior's tasks by AI. Fine for now, but I wonder what happens when the others retire, who's going to replace them if no juniors are trained?

[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 5 points 13 hours ago

I got a degree in development a few years ago and couldn’t find a job. There was nothing out there for a junior dev. I was persistent for about a year then, I just gave up.

Now I work in Commercial Real Estate but I can see this industry is about to be decimated by AI also. They are slowly starting to figure it out and build AI tools that do their job.

[–] kirao47@lemmy.world 3 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (1 children)

Bet on it, there will be (or are already) big revolutions in engineering/programming and art (and music), especially these 2 areas.

Instrinsic/individualistic expression (also motive) is going to become a new form of rocketfuel in that vacuum being created by clankers. Human potential and what really defines existence scales faster than boring exponential growth of calculation power.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 hours ago

It's interesting and scary; if the human spirit is worth anything creatively, we're about to find out how much.

[–] Napster153@lemmy.world 5 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

Bold of you to think they wouldn't replace AI with more AI and lie to their own face in the mirror that their company collapsing is good just because, AI.

[–] monkeyman512@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Yeah, I suggest following the age old wisdom of rats on this. Abandon the sinking ship before it sinks with you in it.