An interesting point I heard the other day: if AI can replace entry level jobs, doing simple scripts that AI can definitely do (because it essentially just spits out the stack overflow/Reddit/etc training data verbatim), then companies no longer need entry level programmers.
If they don’t need entry level programmers, how do you get future senior programmers? Skipping directly to advanced stuff without getting practical experience on the simple stuff is incredibly hard.
What happens when the current senior programmers retire in larger numbers, and there’s very few replacements because the ladder is gone?
What happens when the current senior programmers retire in larger numbers, and there’s very few replacements because the ladder is gone?
I don’t have a solution. I’m just stocking up on physical paper books, so I’ll have something to entertain me while nothing works, until someone figures it out.
(I’m sort of joking, and sort of serious. I do expect Internet service outages to become a lot more common. But I actually just like books, anyway.)
That’s a problem for Q72 and they’re incapable of looking past Q4. Besides, they’ll have already jumped ship by then, what do the execs care if they make this quarter just ever so slightly more profitable
An interesting point I heard the other day: if AI can replace entry level jobs, doing simple scripts that AI can definitely do (because it essentially just spits out the stack overflow/Reddit/etc training data verbatim), then companies no longer need entry level programmers.
If they don’t need entry level programmers, how do you get future senior programmers? Skipping directly to advanced stuff without getting practical experience on the simple stuff is incredibly hard.
What happens when the current senior programmers retire in larger numbers, and there’s very few replacements because the ladder is gone?
I don’t have a solution. I’m just stocking up on physical paper books, so I’ll have something to entertain me while nothing works, until someone figures it out.
(I’m sort of joking, and sort of serious. I do expect Internet service outages to become a lot more common. But I actually just like books, anyway.)
That’s a problem for Q72 and they’re incapable of looking past Q4. Besides, they’ll have already jumped ship by then, what do the execs care if they make this quarter just ever so slightly more profitable
They’re incapable of looking past a single quarter, let alone 4.