Would be cool to see cybersecurity covered here as well. I find it interesting how the machine learning engineer is exploding, but every engineer I talk to about it suggests these positions are mostly doing non-productive "bullshit" work and not really contributing much (arguably this applies to many tech jobs). Obviously that's anecdotal and probably not the real story, but it does seem like "machine learning engineer" is a broad term and probably doesn't tell the full story in itself.
I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
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Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
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Have you looked for a software job in the last few years? It's worse then 10 years ago. Idk why everyone who comments on the job market only looks back to the covid year
No, and no individual person can rely on their personal experience to gauge the job market, including you. However if you wish to assert that it is currently more difficult to get a job as a software developer than it was in late 2015, aggregate data suggest this is false. Also, looking back a mere 10 years does not dispel the general impression that you lack context. If you look at employment in, for example, NAICS…
Which numbers are at all time highs.
Is that really representative of what people mean by tech? Or does that include companies that happen to make software?
Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
#113Earlier quoted context omitted.
Security products and practitioners are the classic snake oil salesmen. They are actually sales and marketing roles for help closing deals by emphasizing some security aspect. True security comes from general IT practices followed by engineers themselves.
I'm a bit amazed you consistently get downvoted while you seem to speak the truth. So much gray in your comments.
I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good.
This thread is a microcosm of that. They went on a tangent from a tangent to express how little they think of their colleagues working in security. It wasn't out of curiosity, it didn't raise interesting questions or provoke interesting debate. They didn't defend or substantiate their opinion so that they and we could learn something from it. It was just a drive-by flamebait to stir the pot and express derision. It should be downvoted; it's a bad comment.
Perhaps that pattern is difficult to see when their hot takes align with your own takes.
Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
#114Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm a bit amazed you consistently get downvoted while you seem to speak the truth. So much gray in your comments.
I consistently see this commenter making a single comment, of questionable relevance, expressing a strong opinion which isn't particularly thoughtful or interesting or true. Then they ignore the pushback and move on to the next thread, where they post another tangential hot take. I'm not at all surprised at the result. Those comments attract a lot of downvote because they aren't very good. This thread is a microcosm…
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Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
#115I found this interesting: "Still, despite all the hype about how AI coding tools will replace software engineers, software engineering is still one of the most secure jobs you can have today, relative to most other white-collar jobs."
Did the invention of compilers eliminate the need for programmers or make them more productive and valuable? LLM coding is really not in the most abstract sense any different from compiling a higher level language to a lower level language.
> LLM coding is really not in the most abstract sense any different from compiling a higher level language to a lower level language.
Hard disagree here. Anecdotally, know a few people who can't write a Java program that will compile, who can leverage ChatGPT to produce functional websites.
A good friend of mine ChatGPTed his way into a masters degree that involved a lot of coding. A good 97% of his degree was done by AI, and the other 3% was me helping him troubleshoot he couldn't get AI to solve.
LLM is vastly different from a compiler/translator. Despite the joke, you can't just fire up Python with import website and have a functional website. But you can basically do that with LLMs, which will then add features as requested. It's not perfect, nor guaranteed to be functional, but it is quite a bit more capable than a compiler is for such tasks.
At my work, the sales guys are using AI tools to rapidly prototype features on our website with prospects. While it doesn't do all the work, it can produce useful HTML templates that the front-end team can make functional.
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#116Earlier quoted context omitted.
You can make a lot of slop of all different sorts with LLMs. That has very little in common with building systems.
"Slop" suggests that the only difference is in quality, but the definition of engineer says nothing of quality. Perhaps you might consider using an LLM to build a system that creates a response that is more coherent?
wow epic comeback man can you share the prompt you used to generate it?
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Hey, I liked the analysis thanks! Any reason why you removed SDRs, Account Executives and similar Sales related roles? I would love to see how that compares to the data you do present. Thanks for sharing your work.
I added a section on sales jobs just now: https://bloomberry.com/blog/i-analyzed-180m-jobs-to-see-what...
You rock man! :) really thanks a lot for sharing this.
Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
#118> First, let’s establish our benchmark: job postings dropped 8% in 2025 compared to the same period in 2024. Indeed reported a 7.3% year-over-year decline for US jobs recently, so this was a good sanity check, and told me that my data most likely was comprehensive. Doesn't this also suggest that the job market is in such an unusual state, that any further analysis makes little or no sense?
Yeah, I was wondering something similar, especially because there was a huge surge in tech job hiring during the pandemic, and part of the story from 2020-2025 is the industry regressing back to the trendline before then. Some people say the rise of ChatGPT (in what, 2023?) is part of that but I'm not convinced.
I suspect much of the data is influenced by speculative firing/rehiring as c-suites are exploring what they can actually skimp on and what they cannot.
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I wouldn't be surprised by a drop in security postings. Quite a few companies view security as an "overhead" so the siren call of reducing that overhead by introducing AI is a thing. Also for a lot of jobs in security it's pretty hard to measure how well it's being done, so if the AI based solutions are worse, that might not show up for a while
People are sleeping on AI in sec, lots of lazy sec engs and architects going to be SoL sooner rather than later.
I could easily see those just running tool and then printing report being replaced by script running the tool and passing results to LLM and then sending report.
And probably more useless architects.
Re: I analyzed 180M jobs to see what jobs AI is replacing today
#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
I wouldn't be surprised by a drop in security postings. Quite a few companies view security as an "overhead" so the siren call of reducing that overhead by introducing AI is a thing. Also for a lot of jobs in security it's pretty hard to measure how well it's being done, so if the AI based solutions are worse, that might not show up for a while
Security products and practitioners are the classic snake oil salesmen. They are actually sales and marketing roles for help closing deals by emphasizing some security aspect. True security comes from general IT practices followed by engineers themselves.
As the security guy. I get the feeling that on average engineers are not exactly great at general IT practises. Or even doing basic things.