I have been reading a lot that 90% of their code is AI generated, companies are pushing developers to use AI as it makes them fast. But I am a little cautious of believing them. Is it true? Also sorry I didn’t find a css career subreddit so I am asking here.
i wonder about fresh graduates and how they’re going to survive this job market.
i graduated with an electrical engineering related degree, but it was immediately after the dot com bubble burst so there were no jobs in my field to be had, but i got lucky and found one doing IT and (at the time) there was still strong a enough demand for software development that my IT experience was deemed “good enough” to allow me to enter the field.
22 years later, i got burned out by the culture that software engineers tend to gravitate towards and pivoted back to IT at a non-profit that serves lower & middle income students. i’ve had to work with some of them as part of work-study sort of thing and every single one of them is sharp af – much more than i was at that age and especially so when it comes to ai – but i see every single one of them (justifiably) freak out about their prospects and i feel for them based on my own experiences.
the colleagues at my new firm have been doing this for 30+ years and have never faced layoffs, downsizing, restructuring, etc. and their callous attitude towards fresh grads wrestling this specter is weighing on me just as much as the dominant i’ve-got-mine-fuck-you type of culture that software engineers tend to adopt when in the field.