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Re: Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

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Post by CM30 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 11:18 AM UTC

vvanders wrote: post #12

If you think the current market is bad pivoting into the game industry is not the direction I would go. The baseline for that industry is... bad and the latest round(s) of layoffs in that industry has made it worse.

Yeah from what I can see, the games industry is going through what the broader tech industry is, just dialled up to eleven. People are being laid off left, right and centre (especially from larger companies), companies are shutting down after years in business and both pay and working conditions are signficiantly worse than they are in every other form of software engineering.

Re: Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

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Post by Duskic » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 11:47 AM UTC

And yet here you are trending on Hacker News. I think you'll do just fine.

Re: Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

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Post by roland35 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 12:06 PM UTC

dijit wrote: post #83

nmca wrote: post #50

Few counterpoints: * AI is better for juniors than seniors. It doesn't do legwork; it just provides knowledge. * Blind is a toxic hellscape and redditors are broadly pretty dim. Plausibly AI is a problem for your employment in like ~2 years; so I'd speedrun into SWE somewhere where you can make as much use of AI as possible (e.g. ask about whether the firm allows copilot, etc). There's no better industry to be in tha…

> AI is better for juniors than seniors. It doesn't do legwork; it just provides knowledge. no, that is exactly the opposite of true, AI is brilliant at boilerplate and finding relevance if you know the right terms, just like search engines, it makes your existing knowledge more useful but it definitely does not provide knowledge. you have to be able to fully comprehend the right answer with AI for it to be useful..

I don't totally agree. As you ask it more specialized and high level questions that may be true, but for beginner level stuff AI is very helpful since there is quite a lot it is based on.

Re: Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

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Post by giantg2 » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:18 PM UTC

"AI appears to be a real threat specifically for juniors"

The threat to students isn't that their jobs will be replaced. The real threat is that they are relying on these technologies to do their work for them rather than learning the concepts and material. I don't know that many college students these days, but the ones I do know describe a culture of just having ChatGPT write your essay, run it through a plagiarism checker, and hand it in.

Re: Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

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Post by simne » Tue, Mar 05, 2024, 5:56 PM UTC

Unfortunately, you should know scientific fact, that from nature, people divided to three groups:

1. Tech/scientific people (mathematics/physics/etc).

2. Art people (extraordinary good with texts and/or graphics/drawing).

3. Cognitive people or entrepreneurs (Tommy from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snatch_(film)

In your age you should already see hints, where are you mostly talent, and could choose appropriate way (yes, all ways divided to three largest groups, anywhere need tech personnel, arts and managers, but all these three learn different way).

Re: Ask HN: Any advice on navigating this job market or pivoting out of tech? (US)

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Post by binary132 » Sat, Mar 09, 2024, 5:09 PM UTC

EchoChamberMan wrote: post #75

binary132 wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Computer programming doesn’t mean computer science.

Good thing I said comp sci includes programming, and not the other way around. Feel free to enlighten us as to what comp sci and Web dev are, and why they share nothing in common. Please.

Science is where you measure, analyze, and develop theories. Computer science in particular is about the design of algorithms and systems for their implementation, such as compilers and interpreters.

Programming is a means of operating computer systems. Sometimes you have to operate computers to do computer science, but not always (for example algorithm design is very mathematical.)

there is meaningful overlap, certainly

and also, not all programming is science, certainly