Programmer Humor

Nah, it's the microplastics.

He needs at least a decade of industry experience. That helps me find jobs.

Never, they donate to get the politicians reelected.

After they fill up on H1B workers and find out that only 1/10 is a good investment.

H1B development work has been a thing for decades, but there's a reason why there are still high-paying development jobs in the US.

This is in no way new. 20 years ago I used to refer to some job postings as H1Bait because they'd have requirements that were physically impossible (like having 5 years experience with a piece of software <2 years old) specifically so they could claim they couldn't find anyone qualified (because anyone claiming to be qualified was definitely lying) to justify an H1B for which they would be suddenly way less thorough about checking qualifications.

a coding LLM can code as well as a fresh CS grad.

For a couple of hundred lines of code, they might even be above average. When you split that into a couple of files or start branching out, they usually start to struggle.

after you give them a piece of advice once or twice, they stop making that same mistake.

That's a damn good observation. Learning only happens with re-training and that's wayyy cheaper when done in meat.

Working with Accenture

I am so sorry..

Answer is probably the same as before AI: build a portfolio on GitHub

You really think that using GitHub falls in the usual vibecoding toolbox? As in: would they even know where/how to look?

Maybe try convincing him in terms he would understand. If it was really that good, it wouldn't be public. They'd just use it internally to replace every proprietary piece of software in existence. They'd be shitting out their own browser, office suite, CAD, OS, etc. Microsoft would be screwing themselves by making chatgpt public. Microsoft could replace all the Adobe products and drive them out of business tomorrow.

it is impossible to convince him that this is, in fact, not the case

He's probably an investor.

The tech economy is struggling. Every company needs 20% more every year, or it's considered a failure. The big fish have bought up every promising property on the map in search of this. It's almost impossible to go from small to large without getting gobbled up, and the guys gobbling up already have 7 different flavors of what you're trying to make on ice in a repo somewhere. There's no new venture capital flowing into conventional work.

AI has all the venture capitalists buzzing, handing over money like it's 1999. Investors are hopping on every hype train because each one has the chance of getting gobbled up and making a good return on investment.

These mega CEO's have moved their personal portfolios into AI funding and their companies pushing the product will line their pockets indirectly.

At some point, that $200/pp/m price will shoot up. They're spending billions on datacenters, and eventually those investments will be called in for returns.

When they hit the wall for training-based improvement, things got slippery. Current models are costing exponentially more, making several calls for every request. The market's not going to bear that without an exponential cost increase, even if they're getting good work done.

I mean ... the first moon landings took a very low number of clicks to make the calculations, technically speaking