The plan was always to over saturate the market with coders so the big techs could lower their wages.
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What's the word from "billionaires are job creators" people? Oh, yeah. Their the ones laying everyone off in order to use "AI".
“Go do what we told a billion others to do! Don’t break the mold!” Yea, big shock there.
Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.
They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.
A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it's a copyleft license they can't just outright steal it.
If the code is GPL they'll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though
All the big tech companies are built on open source projects... No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.
Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.
Usually companies avoid GPL code like a plague
Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav
wait... it will be a matter of national security and like you know "you and what army"
But they can, and do.
Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don't know it's there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn't follow the terms of the license, and you're set for life.
I was referring to AI scraping.
“The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.
This has never ever been true for any job, especially at 21 years old.
I mean maybe there's a rare trade that gives you the bick bucks from the get go, but even law practice and finance takes a lot of unpaid work to finally get properly paid.
Additionally, just “knowing how to code” has never been an actual ticket to success.
Software engineers are hired to solve problems, not write code. If you can write code but can’t solve problems and create innovative solutions you’re no better than a monkey.
Might not have been true, but has definitely been the narrative pedalled to young people for years.
There is always some career that kids get pushed into with a promise of “jobs in demand” and “guaranteed salary”.
Yep.. I didn't mean they weren't lied to.. But you're right, they were lied to.
That is what the democrats told people who lost their jobs to closed coal mines and closed manufacturing plants.
Democrats didn't close the manufacturing plants. Capitalists did.
Serving capital has been the primary organizing function of the Democratic Party for at least the last 40 years.
Yes, both parties. But they didn't pass any laws to ban manufacturing in US. Capitalists moved manufacturing to Asia because it was cheaper.
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Yeah no shit. This was the plan all along. Big tech wanted to flood the market with too much talent so they could lower pay for engineers. This was always the plan.
They never gave two shits about women in coding, or inner city coding caml's. They wanted mass cheap labor.
The cherry on top is right as that labor was coming out they got a double whammy of AI too.
The jobs didn't follow because "big tech" lost what was left of its collective mind and put their heads all the way up each others asses.
The jobs were never going to follow either way. It was a way to make more workers so they could pay everyone less. If there's 100 people practically begging for your job for half the pay, good luck negotiating a raise.