Technology

At this point even the Futurama randomised job assigner machine seems better than our current system

The first year of college usually filtered those people out. Usually.

Unfortunately in my country this doesn't happen. There's a bell curve and as long as you submit your homework and do the bare minimum for the exams, you get your degree. You're gonna have a pretty mid GPA, but you'll have a degree which effectively makes the degree useless as an indicator of competency. The amount of people I've interviewed who couldn't answer a simple programming question is astounding.

Most of these people end up picking up jobs as project managers because that's all they can do. And the country's leaders wonder why we don't have much software R&D here.

For me it’s starting to feel very draining. I’ve worked on small teams the past several years but now my current internal-only project is picking up steam and we’ve got a product owner and manager on board.

The amount of planning, discussing, iterating, changing requirements, etc. is absolutely demanding. I’m starting to miss just programming. The overhead is what starts to make all this feel soul-sucking after a while.

I’m a computer scientist and got into it before it became popular.

I suck at programming and have never labeled myself as a programmer. I write software to solve problems and know my way around the SDLC, but there’s a LOT of CS work out there that isn’t being a code monkey.

The shame was the number of people who went to college specifically to learn how to write software that can now be generated by AI, at the quality level generated by AI. Those jobs are now gone. Being a software analyst, integrator, architect, security engineer, information systems analyst, data scientist, etc? Thise are still in high demand, as are programmers who are subject matter experts or can lead a team.

I really enjoy programming, and i don't mind all of the planning, mentorship, and working with stakeholders to formulate solutions. But for the past few weeks 90% of the work I've been doing had been around deployment, migrating services to new servers, and fucking with azure resources. I haven't written a line of code for 3+ weeks. That has been draining.

Couple that with picking up work items that are poorly written with way to little information on what needs doing and it's also frustrating as hell.

At my company, we have dozens, probably over one hundred different repos that we maintain, and no less than 30 actively worked on projects. It's bitter sweet in that I get a good mix of work to break up the monotony of working on the same project, but at the cost of not being able to master any of them. I've only been in my role for 6-8 months coming from a non programming background, and it's been tough to learn and keep up with the pace required. Being full stack is nice but shitty at the same time.

Hilarious to throw biotech out there at the end as its a similar case with a lot of smart people doing not what they want and hard to pivot out of. The filter also works similarly.

i think because biotech is has a small gatekeeped job market, its hard to get into, its essentially a catch-22, its also complicated by other things, , and requires upfront experience years before graduation.

they already have the situation where they dont train people for biotech out of graduation already, you are expected to have it already.

Sadly, I'm way more burned out than Pre-AI and I was a bit before then. (So I guess it just sped up the pace).

I have no desire to come home and work on personal software or devops projects. My Homelab sits in the same state it was since the last real vacation I had. Corporate/industry work has removed all desire for personal development work.

This is the way to keep being attached to what you create. Noone can force you to use AI for your own stuff. And if corporate life does get unbearable, there's still the path of trying to sell your own software. Not using LLMs for that is a big plus nowadays in the eyes of costumers too.

I think this is part of the reason for the massive explosion - close to cambrian proportions - in the indie games market in the last years. It gives people a creative outlet and if it goes well (sadly that is not often the case - yet. Steam has been experimenting heavily on matching the right player with the right game which has already made some impact in actual sale numbers from what i read, and the fruits of this experimentation are bound to come into play next year), it might pay the bills.

Edit: Here's Steams announcement where the are replacing curated slots with ones personalized to the account: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/steamworks/announcements/detail/676258795703240952

I've started my own project a few months ago (fully free mobile game on Android and iOS), it can be a fun hobby, but when it's not so fun you burn out even quicker. So I guess it depends on if it's just a small project for yourself or if you make it public..

Seems like cyber security is the new hot thing now