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Software engineers are facing an 'identity crisis bordering on depression,' Menlo Ventures partner says (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] kescusay@lemmy.world 24 points 1 hour ago (3 children)

Software engineer, here. Yep, the burnout is real. I consider myself fortunate, however; with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately to cut back on token usage.

I think that's pretty much where the entire industry will go soon.

[–] emmanuel_car@fedia.io 8 points 42 minutes ago

Yeah based on WYEA’s articles recently I would say that is the case. As providers move to token based billing, trying to find a way to break even, the rising costs will lower usage, which will probably then drive up costs further as the (imaginary) capital has already been spent on the DCs.

[–] Jhex@lemmy.world 1 points 4 minutes ago

however; with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately to cut back on token usage.

and the Slop companies are still losing money... the end result still seems to be more expensive, crappier code, yet most companies seem to be so nearsighted they are not jumping into the spike pit face first

[–] uuj8za@piefed.social 1 points 13 minutes ago (1 children)

with the skyrocketing cost of AI, my employer has been urging us to do as much as possible by hand lately

Meanwhile, my company has forgotten how to write bash scripts... More and more things that could just be bash scripts are being added as stupid Claude.md scripts.

Hahahaha. Let's go! grabs popcorn

[–] DevDave@piefed.social 1 points 1 minute ago

Wow, that's some brilliant vendor lock in on Anthropic's side.

[–] judgyweevil@feddit.it 3 points 42 minutes ago

INB4 "Engineers can't handle stress, let's replace them with AI"

[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

I almost clicked the link until I saw the domain name.

[–] KingDingbat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Educate me?

[–] Arrandee@lemmy.world 3 points 53 minutes ago

Business Insider articles are generally trash content. They choose provocative headlines and hot-button issues to boost engagement, but once you’re on the site, there’s not actually that much to engage with.

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Today software engineers and tomorrow software engineers minus one.

[–] ExcessShiv@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 49 minutes ago* (last edited 48 minutes ago) (1 children)

software engineers minus one

software engineerr?...I don't get it

[–] Miller@lemmy.world 1 points 10 minutes ago

My old statistics lecturer would write x-¹ as shorthand meaning everything that is not x, I thought it was in more common usage but perhaps not. I know it more generally means the reciprocal, he just expected you to know which he meant by context.