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I've been seeing "we are cooked" posts lately about software engineering jobs. But at the same time, here's another take: the number of jobs has been steadily increasing since the release of ChatGPT

Kinda aligns with my observations – even well-funded companies still struggle to find good engineers, but there are just fewer junior positions

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I trained up to be a junior, worked as a dev for 1yr and then jumped ship :)

Do you mean you used to be an engineer and are now relearning?

I feel so stupid relearning it still 🙇🏼‍♀️

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feels like more kids are going to school learning to code than ever too. max pain

junior engineers are cooked 🙇‍♀️

AI coding’s nearly rendered these companies unable to hire junior engineers

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Agree I'm seeing posts requiring cs degrees now. Which wasn't the case before

Why do you think that about the second point?

I think I’ve seen this cycle myself – companies changing from hiring qualified devs to 1-3 months bootcamp folks, and now back. For me, these shifts in hiring standards looked like it were more correlated with the amount of capital and number of new companies in the market, rather than a genuine pursue of a higher-quality software.

Long-term salary of current senior/staff ends will increase as there will be no replacement as they exit the market. In fact, it’s already happening!

On top of that, we will probably see higher educational requirements for the jobs. Employers will want actual engineers and not code monkeys.

hahaha way before 
wrote my first line of code ~7 years ago

with ai progression, I feel more and more secure in my career 😃 

what about you? did you start coding before or after ai?

more vibe coders = less engineers who can code without ai = more jobs and better pay for good engineers 

good engineers are always in demand 🫶

The fact that the peak was around the end of COVID quarantine is also interesting 🤔

the pattern rhymes with how the power loom affected weaving jobs in the Industrial Revolution