The onus is on us, we senior tech workers, to gouge the absolute shit out of future companies to show them the error of their ways.
this post was submitted on 02 May 2026
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And when they start hiring juniors again, insist on onboarding those motherfuckers like you're teaching a CS degree. The young'ns deserve to learn, this is some bullshit.
Only semi-related but check for local computer clubs/maker spaces in your area. Ours does everything from tutoring/group learning to monthly LAN parties. Learning CAD from Youtube is okay, learning CAD while being able to ask questions of a professional engineer is even better!
I've been helping people move to/learn Linux (we have a bunch of donated Windows 10 desktop hardware to play with), it's pretty rewarding to teach people who actually want to learn (training new hires who are clearly bored is not so much...) and we usually end up giving them the machine that they're learning on if they need it.
Just another way to pass it on and get some offline nerd socialization, if you're into that kind of thing.
This is delicious in every way, I really love it. Kudos!!
Here's my tidbit - if you're in the US and in a not-tiny or remote part of it, good chance you can find people offloading old Dell business-class laptops, workstations, all the way up to v. spendy server machines, depending directly on number of school systems, corporate office spaces (and etc), and industrial or info-tech type businesses nearby. Respectively, and with some overlap and such 😅
Beyond the obvious benefits for sustainability (reuse!) and affordability - business-class Dell have always been engineered quite well (expensively, and uhhh... opinionatedly, lol).
Arguably even more useful, all those well-engineered things were made in huge volume. You will ~always be able to find cheap parts. And, if buying a lot, by having a handful of the ~same thing (all destined for a dumpster), you already get redundancy, and...ahem...some very useful teachable moments lol.
It feels like a cheat code. Place populated enough and there will def be businesses whose main thing is snapping these up, cleaning up and etc and reselling. But I'm in a not-tiny place and I still see some deals. OTOH, all of that got a lot worse once hardware prices jumped the shark, so, maybe this tip is already outdated.
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That took an expert?
If you don't train juniors you don't get seniors to fix shit or to build you more AI.
Every C-Suite think they will be able to snatch senior devs that other companies will train.
This is already the case at companies like Valve and Netflix. They “don’t hire junior devs”…
I applied for a job at Valve a couple of years ago and was told that my over decade of development experience didn’t make me senior enough.
Valve has the sweetest of all business models: do almost nothing, make tons of money. They have so few employees.
they save money by laying all the work on the low amount of employees they have rather than hiring more people, its probably skeleton crewed. thats probably why they make so money there, dont want to spread around.
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This has been the case since way before the LLM boom but it has definitely moved into a higher gear.
They really believe that seniors will move to their slop based company after all the shit they dug themselves into. The heads of these ceos must be full of unicorn shit and rainbows.
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The bourgeoisie no longer holds any care whatsoever for sustainability.
Quire seriously, their only goal is to obtain enough wealth and power that they won't feel the effects of losing any of it until they die. That's their literal goal. All hell is allowed to break loose, but only after they die.
Let the other companies be the suckers that take a loss on training juniors into seniors
You know, those other companies that also use AI instead of hiring juniors.
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They don't care. They only care about short term profits. Capitalism only cares about immediate profits and doesn't plan for the long term. The management at the top know they won't be there when the system fails. They'll get their massive paycheques and cash out their stock long before it crashes.
They can't care. If they don't relentlessly pursue profit quarter after quarter, they'll be consumed by companies who will. There is no planning for the future, only profits.
Also the system selects for mental illness so a lot of the worst offenders here literally can’t feel empathy.
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Warning a company is like talking to a wall. It doesn't care about tomorrow, hell, it exists on exploitation of tomorrow for today. If you expect the free market or business to save you, youre fucked.
go figure
Gen Z? This bullshit has been ongoing since the early 00's. Every fucking company wants applicants with 5+ years experience straight out of the gate, with training provided by anyone else but them, and to pay the new hire as if they rolled out of their High School grad through the front door. Look to Gen Y if you want to see what's going to happen again (more self-service kiosks and useless chatbots). Many of the kids training for these jobs are going to completely abandon their chosen career track in favour of work that's responsive to their needs - things like actually responding to applications and paying their fucking rent/mortgage. I'm finding to people in their early 20's who're already sick of this shit, without a clear understanding of what's happened to the labour market.
Good, let ‘em ruin themselves. We need the people in healthcare and education anyway. In the meantime, tax the companies to hell because they’ve lost all value now they’re not even “creating jobs” in your country.
Except healthcare and education are also getting dismantled.
And the companies aren't being taxed.
There are a lot jobs that a computer simply cannot do, because they are not humans. Especially the ones that require human contact and interaction. Until we have a robot that can mimic a human those jobs are safe. The jobs that require you to make calculations or provide input into a computer are most at risk.
And I know the companies are being taxed, that’s why I said let’s tax them.
Can you name 5 jobs where human contact is strictly necessary and I'll see if I can explain how AI will replace those people anyway?
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There are a lot jobs that a computer simply cannot do, because they are not humans.
Yes.
Until we have a robot that can mimic a human those jobs are safe.
No.
You're assuming corporations will wait until the robots are capable of replacing humans before replacing the humans with robots.
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Not all that great for the people who now can't get jobs.
Take me for example. I like to think I'm a pretty good software engineer. And I actually enjoy it. I'd be a pretty bad doctor and an even worse teacher (I'm also a man so that would limit me to teaching teenagers and older anyway, nobody wants men near children in education).
Don't give much of a fuck about the companies, but a lot of people are now denied a career path that might've been THE thing they're great at and enjoy doing. This is about several different fields, of which mine is one. I'm quite lucky I got in when I did. Otherwise I'd have to start considering suicide by now because I can't stand manual labour or customer service.
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The lost geenration that was denied a place in society should use their skills to create a new society without them
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