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Wondering what the data would say if you compare it to the numbers in 2015. It definitely feels there are more jobs now (at least from my POV)
Yea totally agree, would like a 10+ year chart. I only had good data from the beginning of 2025
I’m going to keep getting a job the way I have for the past decade - my ability to use my now 30+ years of experience between development, 10+ years of leading architecture projects and being able to deal with the business and disambiguate and solve XYProblems. AI has changed nothing about the value o bring to the company. Now I just do a lot of the implementation drudgery myself faster or that I would have delegated to other people.
Does the same thing happen if AI is a failure and all AI related stocks and investments crash?
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Yea totally agree, would like a 10+ year chart. I only had good data from the beginning of 2025
Where is your data from? I saw comparisons of job postings from Jan 2025 to Jan 2026 and SWE was trending upwards: https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/IHLIDXUSTPSOFTDEVE
I'm in the process of putting together a market analysis tool with my data since it isn't biased to one platform (not saying that Indeed data is wrong though). Mine will only go back to the beginning of 2025 tho
1. Move out of the expensive city into a lower-cost of living country.
2. Buy cheap property with cash, reduce my expenses to a minimum.
3. Take a long time off to figure out what the world will look like in a year.
4. Learn a trade skill, hand-code for fun. Considering becoming an electrician, with a hobby for retrocomputing and repairing electronics.
I am at step 2 currently, and my current job contract ends in the summer. I can’t wait, man. Enjoy your AI-assisted coding; after 20 years I am out.
To be fair, to hedge my bets, I am working on a side-project/game. Clankers are a long way from creating art, and I need this outlet after decades of soulless engineering.
It’s been well over a decade and 5 jobs ago that I had to sell myself on my coding ability even though coding has always been part of my job. I’m going to keep getting a job the way I have for the past decade - my ability to use my now 30+ years of experience between development, 10+ years of leading architecture projects and being able to deal with the business and disambiguate and solve XYProblems. AI has changed n…
My two year-long plan: 1. Move out of the expensive city into a lower-cost of living country. 2. Buy cheap property with cash, reduce my expenses to a minimum. 3. Take a long time off to figure out what the world will look like in a year. 4. Learn a trade skill, hand-code for fun. Considering becoming an electrician, with a hobby for retrocomputing and repairing electronics. I am at step 2 currently, and my current j…
It’s been well over a decade and 5 jobs ago that I had to sell myself on my coding ability even though coding has always been part of my job. I’m going to keep getting a job the way I have for the past decade - my ability to use my now 30+ years of experience between development, 10+ years of leading architecture projects and being able to deal with the business and disambiguate and solve XYProblems. AI has changed n…
Are you not concerned with ageism?
I was 50 the next year when I had a job within three weeks after spending a year at the shitty company I chose (I wanted to stay in consulting and didn’t want to work at $bigCompany again). I just responded to an internal recruiter who reached out to me a couple of days prior (dumb luck).
I’m much more worried about the state of the industry and current employment market which affects people of any age.
My other secret weapon is that I found out from a former manager/now friend that most non Black people have no idea how old a Black guy is once he shaves his head and face. Like Bill Burr said I think it’s the lotion…
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/OCC_XS-fQa0
And my resume only hoed back 10 years
The premise is flawed, I don't see AI taking jobs because companies want to grow in productivity generally speaking and would rather just make their existing employees do more; all productivity saving technologies have always been net positive in the amount of jobs created.