Noted. I'm of the impression that the code the AIs churn out have no flow, i.e, it's hard for a human to pick up and modify. Wont be surprised at all if the new devs just refuse and start again from scratch.
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The weird thing about pyramid schemes is that they are most lucrative the exact moment they fold. We'll soon find out who got lucky and who instead is holding the paper bag filled with dog poop.
Good.
Good. Bring all the investments back to doing real work. Like ending world hunger.
Money's gone. Even if companies WANTED and COULD bring back full time devs it's an impossible task of their own creation. I have clients that leveraged AI for end to end builds and it didn't work, they now know it didn't work, and are scrambling to find devs but they can't. Not because said devs don't exist, they do in droves. They can't because of the shit of their own creation. AI. They can put out an ad for a senior dev and they'll get slammed with literally thousands of resumes, a good majority of which are AI created/submitted. So now they have to weed through thousands of resumes to find an ACTUAL living breathing individual who ACTUALLY knows and can do what they claim because another good majority of resumes are from people who zero qualifications who lie or are over seas. So they don't bother and hope the ship will right itself or the junior dev they have on staff suddenly gets good.
What's going to happen is many companies are going to shut down. it's way past the point of no return for them. They'll pay for consultants and freelancers like myself to try and patch the holes in said ships and hope they make it to land before it sinks. They'll try to make as much money for investors and upper level managers before shit hits the fan.
All I can suggest for developers that are still unemployed is to pivot to code review. try to get hired as a consultant for that and work your damn asses off to make as much money as you can NOW before there's nothing left to code review. That's what I'm doing.
they'll just switch to another gpu based scam just like last time
because you know, they paid a lot for these gpus
That's not happening. If people in charge wanted to stop would hunger or even hunger in the us, it would have already been done
Also, the money spent is gone and I am not sure how they are planning on recouping the capital put into gpu data centers and llms. At best it is another 20 dollar sub per head.
Maybe double it. One at work and one at home. Gonna take a not minute to get trillions back.