Since we have 500,000+ IT workers in the US looking for work...
when will the H-1bs be going home?
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Software is binary (sorry, not non-binary) and either 0 or 1.
So you need two employees, one “0” and one “1”.
And on a tangent, AI in Morse code is ._ and ..
Not much ‘diversity’, lots of dots and lots of short (two pulses) letters.
AI can write programs, ergo bye-bye coding jobs.
I deal with companies putting a hold on rollouts and developments. It's not because of the costs but because so many key people have retired since the Scamdemic began and their replacements are missing or are significantly less capable. The replacements are unable to make decisions because they're in so far over their head. First decision - let's hold off on upgrading or replacing these systems "until we get our arms around what we're dealing with".
I see companies holding onto relics of in-house programs because they can't get viable bids for replacing it. I especially see it in small companies where the owners are planning on closing shop if the economy takes a further dip. Why fix up the car if you're running it until it fails completely?
One disturbing trend I've seen is the increase in the number of complete snake oil salesmen (and saleswomen) among small software firms, where after several years of development, the programs completely miss the mark. The client doesn't have any employees who know enough about software and programming so the company is completely dependent on outsourced developers. The employees at the company don't know what they need, are data illiterate, and more and more don't even know anything about computers.
and when AI writes better code faster than the churn coming out of coding the mills today???
Software development is part of a bigger job. Now basically you’d better be a Subject Matter Expert who codes.
my son lost his internet support job just before Christmas...his whole department....nothing as of yet..
I started out on IBM 360/30 in the basement of the Empire State building and it was good while it lasted kids. Now AI can build the code on it’s own.
AI is just stupidity at the speed of light.
Someone has forgotten to tell the 10 recruiters that contact me every weekday with offers of software development jobs.
Not to mention that AI can, allegedly, “learn to code.”
Learn to dig!
I’m sick and tired of all the software updates and so-called improvements.
They’ve just kloodged up what used to work well with annoying bells and whistles.
It’s just about time. 50 years ago coding was something for post graduate study. Today, grade school kids might go to coding camp.
I remember 30+ years ago telling a secretary/admin type that her job was disappearing soon owing to common office automation. The good ones learned network administration, spreadsheets, databases or whatever. Typing and shorthand have their ever-shrinking place. It was about the same time that the first teasers of codeless programming were emerging.
It’s just about time. 50 years ago coding was something for post graduate study. Today, grade school kids might go to coding camp.
I remember 30+ years ago telling a secretary/admin type that her job was disappearing soon owing to common office automation. The good ones learned network administration, spreadsheets, databases or whatever. Typing and shorthand have their ever-shrinking place. It was about the same time that the first teasers of codeless programming were emerging.
I was going to hire a computer programmer and tech him about business but I decided to hire a high school grad who knows how to use chatgpt instead.
Learn to plumb.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world; those that understand binary and those that don’t.