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Not that it matters, I’ve been a developer for 15 years and unemployed for the last 18 months. There are no jobs right now, and it doesn’t seem like there’s going to be any anytime soon.
I've been in industry for 10 years, got let go and have also been unemployed. The industry is terrible right now. I'm looking to career switch because I'd rather make less money doing something I love than continue to put a paycheck above my morals.
My hope is that after the bubble pops, the engineers who haven't had their brains rotted away by AI tools become much more valuable
There are SD jobs in India. That's what companies mean by AI.
We are the same person...
Which is weird because I have an opening for multiple devs yet all I’m getting are bots.
Where?!? We recently moved to the largest city in my state and I still haven’t had any better luck. I’ve applied to over 150 jobs and had two interviews 14 months apart… I had a recruiter tell me that they’ve only had a couple jobs go by their desk in the last few months, and each of them was for a very very specific software stack. And the worst part is that the amount of spam calls that I get tell me that half of these jobs have just been honey pots.
Hire me? https://matdombrock.com/
Send me the application I'll apply
You could make a start-up search-engine that reliably filters out any AI content.
$10 per year subs. I'll be your first subscriber :]
Reliably detecting AI content would require AI to be reliable in the first place in order to be clearly detectable.
Unless you serve no results at all, of course.
Crowd-sourced flagging could identify the AI or non-AI content, along with white listing certain trusted domains.
You only need to clear the top 2 pages of each search query string, because that is pretty much all people use.
Unfortunately there will be many users more likely to flag viewpoints they disagree with than actual AI, so you'll end up creating people who associate AI-flagging with censorship.
Exactly, plus if it becomes popular at all. Corporate bad actors will intentionally poison the results.
Not if you hand the voting power out randomly, like early Slashdot. Every 300th-2000th visitor gets to vote on the content.
Developers are not computer scientists.
There's software engineering degrees with less math reqs if you just want to be a code monkey
I honestly don’t know what you’re trying to say here. There really isn’t other degrees in software, MIS for instance is a degree in IT. My degree is in computer science with a minor in math.
There are degrees in software engineering. That's the name of the degree.
It's more focused on programming and less focused on science