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> we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions Yeah, sure you are. Report back when it happens.
We got the thumbs up from management last week.
(Replacing overpriced garbageware with something I scraped together in 3 days is my jam. But the specifics matter a lot.)
Recently poked around the job market to see what I qualify for in this day and age. Working as a solo builder in my org I would say that I have done enough in the last 18 months to consider myself “with it”. What I found was pretty brutal. Companies asking for 4 years of agentic AI experience… pardon? Then it hit me. Oh they are all making shit up now and have no bar that anyone can hit because they are believing in…
> Companies asking for 4 years of agentic AI experience… pardon? Not that I am trying to excuse it, but this is not a new thing, nor specific to AI. Job listings that ask for X years of experience where X years is sometimes literally longer than the technology has even existed has been a staple complaint of developers over my entire career, and I'm old af.
Sebastián Ramírez seeing a job requiring 4 years of experience with FastAPI, the library he created 1.5 years before that posting.
If AI means job cuts and not using AI means job cuts but no one really tracks AI impact that means performative adoption of AI is safest, and real gains are to be sandbagged as innate magic hand waving.
At my work I'm one of the few who says "I made this with Claude" and the near impossibility of using AI with internal email etc for security reasons means AI use is one-shot wonder oriented (for me, in my experience).
If AI usage was incentived with actual bonuses and praise it might go over better. So far I haven't seen that. Its just implicit threats.
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We got the thumbs up from management last week.
Cool! Which ones? (Replacing overpriced garbageware with something I scraped together in 3 days is my jam. But the specifics matter a lot.)
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bro, tech hr were asking 6 to 8 years rails experience before dhh (rails creator) was even born. This has been almost a meme on hacker news for some time. You can google it via hn dot algolia dot com by using the right keywords. Of course, i exaggerated it a bit, just like a lot of startups and vcs pimp their stuff, just that they do it much more, and they do it for money, while my mine was for fun. ha ha ha.
Wow, fuck. Literally some minutes later, i scrolled down below my above comment. And saw this one. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49053201 Which doesn't validate mine, but agrees with what I said. Except that it was posted about one hour before mine. go figure.
Recently poked around the job market to see what I qualify for in this day and age. Working as a solo builder in my org I would say that I have done enough in the last 18 months to consider myself “with it”. What I found was pretty brutal. Companies asking for 4 years of agentic AI experience… pardon? Then it hit me. Oh they are all making shit up now and have no bar that anyone can hit because they are believing in…
Use it in your favor. You just have to get past the recruiter/talent acquisition where everyone else is getting auto-rejected. You should be doing that anyway.
Organizational inertia is a real thing. There are still fortune 500 companies with internal bans on AI. A lot of the answer to "how much impact has AI had" comes down to "how much have we even attempted?" In my workplace, we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions because a non-programmer vibe-coded their replacement in a week. The impacts are here, they're just not evenly distributed yet.
> In my workplace, we're going to decline to renew some software subscriptions because a non-programmer vibe-coded their replacement in a week. The impacts are here, they're just not evenly distributed yet. Interesting to see the impact in the long term when battle tested software gets replaced with vibecoded variants by non-programmers. Does it increase data breaches or quality actually goes up?
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I wonder how much of it is real and how much of it is people just being worn down by the hype to the point they can't fight it anymore Very smart people aren't immune to being worn down over time
I really don't think that's how it works. Smart, experienced developers who thought coding agents were junk for most of 2025 and think they're useful now in 2026 are not saying that because they got "worn down over time".
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Yep, the goalposts just keep shifting. In reality: they still don't work well, unless you're content with producing low quality work.
This is the opposite of my experience since about February of this year.
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Use it in your favor. You just have to get past the recruiter/talent acquisition where everyone else is getting auto-rejected. You should be doing that anyway.
If decision-makers put up a front of recruiters and talent acquisition "specialists", don't they send a very explicit message that going past those is unwelcome and won't be considered?