The End Of Jr Engineers Response

The problem is not finding a job. The problem is staying alive long enough to find one.

AI has nothing to do with the lack of Jr dev jobs. I have worked in IT ops for over 20 years, there has been a standard no hire for Jr engineers on the ops side for at least 15 years. Teams have been squeezed to be 1/5th of their size, there is no room to train or babysit anyone. we only hire Architects or Sr engineers. And this predates AI by a decade. My advice has always been build a lab, get the certs, do what you need to do to understand the technology then put it on your resume, don't lie outright, but don't volunteer this is your first IT job. And my favorite misinformed lies are the people that tell beginners to start in the help desk or service desk. Those people will never get hired. Its sad, and it does not just affect IT ops, it affects every department, Wall Steet does not want to support companies who plan for the long term, they prioritize this quarters earning over long term gains, and they try to extract max value from every company like a bunch of pirates plundering the future for short term gains now. It takes an exceptionally strong CEO and executive team to fight against the big institutional investors corrupting the boards of these companies.

OMG. Primeagen is just an amazing human being. I learned more from his take than I did from my own video.

What a video! My eyes got watery. When I gratuated college on my 2nd attempt at 29 I had my son in one arm and my soon to be wife with my unborn daugter in the other. Getting through school was tough with so much outside reponsibilites. 4 years later, now unemployed has been tough but I will keep on grinding.  "The harder I work, the luckier I get"

I started learning to code earlier this year. I'm 39. I find it so incredibly encouraging to hear about other people who were successful picking up the skill at my age.

I think employers are shooting in their own foot, if they think they will replace ppl long term with AI, good luck to them. In 10-15 years where there will be lack of new IT workforce because new juniors are not hired and trained, i will gladly offer my skills for a big lump of $$ :)

The CEO of NVidia says "stop teaching kids to code" - but then, he's an EXECUTIVE (not technical) in a HARDWARE company. Ignore that noise.

I dropped out of university doing computer science because I didn't feel like it was what I really wanted to do. I think that's just because of how the degree was structured with so much theory that just wasn't applicable to anything in the real world. Spent the next decade or so doing whatever and then eventually went back to school in my late twenties. I went to a technical college. Got a 2-year diploma and landed a job within 3 to 6 months. My first software job was after 30 and now I'm making crazy money at a job that I love.

I didn't begin coding til I was 28, was 34 before I got to don the title of Software Engineer, and a whole lot of shit went down in between. When I got the call with an offer I was living in a red roof inn with 2 nights stay left, $6 in my pocket, and wondering if not offing myself had been the right choice. Literally went from homeless, hopeless, and destitute to 6-figures overnight. It's fucking rough out here.

AI integrated products are gunna look like my grandma's keyboard from 2009 with a dedicated keycap for "skype". At the time, they tried to spin skype as the future of home telephones, and so she was super excited to have a key that would just open skype to the diel screen to call someone. Now if you click on the key, it does nothing because skype has been written over with electron or something.