It’s obvious the game has changed and while no one has a crystal ball, I’m curious what you all are focusing on to stay employed in tech.
Ask HN: What are you doing to stay employable in tech in the next 1-5 years?
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#2trying to get my Amazon AWS Machine Learning Cert. Certs definitely give you credibility in this game nowadays. Google Cloud certs are also good, as well as CyberSecurity stuff
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#3I'm creating a low-code platform using AI to automate my own work (to be more productive) and also trying to learn how to engage an audience on social media (around AI and software development) to use as leverage to get contracts, launch apps and make a profit.
As a coder since 2002 (when I was 12 years old), I feel like I got into tech at the right time. Nowadays the new hacker is the people that can amass a big audience doing interesting things. If I was 12 years old now, I probably wouldn't hack my way coding, I would do it through social media.
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#5I've been avoiding having a real job for most of my adult life. I am trying to build an online business or two that leverages AI. Such as for fine tuning LLMs or an open source agent hosting system.
Although right now I don't have the energy to work on that stuff since I am scrambling to get the next crap Upwork contract.
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#6It’s a trap to be scared and try to gamble on near future.
By the time most of today’s wannabe AI gurus are good enough to get a decent job offer - AI would not be such a big deal (best case scenario imo).
I didn’t notice any “obvious” changes in the game that weren’t there before.
For instance I don’t see anything different in requirements and comments of HRs reaching me.
JVM is still same jvm, bugs are still bugs, unit tests are still unit tests.
The fact that now instead of googling a problem you google and gpt it is a minor change in any real world complex engineering context that im aware of.
What exactly is obvious to you that im missing?
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#7It’s a trap to be scared and try to gamble on near future. By the time most of today’s wannabe AI gurus are good enough to get a decent job offer - AI would not be such a big deal (best case scenario imo). I didn’t notice any “obvious” changes in the game that weren’t there before. For instance I don’t see anything different in requirements and comments of HRs reaching me. JVM is still same jvm, bugs are still bugs,…
I agree on the AI stuff ... personally, I think it's going to need 5 years or so just to iron out all the legal and regulatory stuff before the 'next big push'
In general, I think you make your money in Tech at the ends.. Either bleeding edge or trailing edge. ATM, I'm working on Rust, serverless, playing with Pijul, keeping an eye on OpenTF, and pulumi.
For trailing edge stuff - I figure I'll be the worlds oldest COBOL coder by the time I retire and can use that to fund my retirement :-P
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#8C worked for the last fifty years or so, I think it has staying power for the next five.
But more seriously, just keep learning stuff. New languages, systems, tools, whatever grabs your interest.
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#9Not writing JavaScript for money ever again. I switched careers. Now all future jobs will either be in management or require certifications or someone else more naive can have it.
My solution in general terms is to go where competence isn’t ambiguous.
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