It's not entirely lost on me that our industry (collectively our fields of expertise) are undergoing tremendous strain.
#AI has turned everything on its head. Apart from that, in my personal view it is the commercial corporate activity, something that occurs at the same time as all of the advancements do in AI, that's really "off the charts" by way of just how horrible the actual construct or the "engagement part" of a corporation operates: skewing many workers' judgements in the wrong ways -- this runs up through management, too. Nobody talks much about the second part. They don't know and they cannot see the changes ahead.
I tried to explain to a bookstore worker in Portland, Oregon the other day just what was happening to our industry. She was intelligent but still really didn't understand what is taking place now. The young bookstore employee has a brother who works in tech. She told me that he thinks #AI frequently hallucinates when he tries to code projects with it.
I keep asking what the hell is wrong?
The Gen X attitude is still: "Keep those doggies rolling." I really hate some of them for not simply looking back and asking more about fundamentals. Maybe take a different approach and stop screwing around with .NET, TypeScript, and Azure implementations?
It's such bullshit. Open your eyes and look within, people. Are you satisfied with this outcome?
It's not just agentic systems that are going to eliminate about 50% of programming jobs in less than 10 years. It's the really competitive people not caring about other workers' livelihoods. Some of us will not work 8 hours x 5 days all the time, sorry to say.
There is so much consolidation of industry occurring, so much rebranding, that no one can make a career out of tech anymore without changing hats around six or eight times. The dull programmers stick to the same stuff and don't ever look back. Good luck doing that, guys.
Authoring software is becoming too much of a burden, even for the young bloods. I don't code a lot but I read a lot of code snippets and I also read many articles that discuss coding.
I see these changes through the manner in which #Slashdot posts are written everyday (I've criticized them a little on here -- they're actually pretty good with the overall breadth of tech topics that they cover). I can tell from their style of writing that they get down on themselves since they cannot slow down some of these asinine changes happening in the USA nor can they speed them up using better code.
