No more web dev jobs

  • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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    4 months ago

    lathe-of-heaven

    • companies replace the development of front-end and public facing programmes with algorithmically generated, bloated code

    • the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

    • companies replace the development of back-end public facing programmes with algorithmically generated, bloated code

    • the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

    • companies replace the development of server-side programmes with algorithmically generated, bloated code

    • the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

    • at every point, the workload for troubleshooting and bug-fixing increases while staffing decreases; remaining employees are encouraged to use algorithmic generators to provide code patches

    • the savings from cutting labor are served up to investors as profit

    • an exodus of critical skilled labor continues, individuals carrying the trend further than companies' initial wave of layoffs was intended to impact

    • something very fundamental and (relatively) ancient brakes, and the skills required to address it no longer exist within the traditional industry

    Dot Com Bubble II, ƒin

    • Findom_DeLuise [she/her, they/them]
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      4 months ago

      something very fundamental and (relatively) ancient brakes, and the skills required to address it no longer exist within the traditional industry

      We call this "AS/400 and mainframe billing systems"

      • hotcouchguy [he/him]
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        4 months ago

        My guess is BGP, imagine chatgpt trying to maintain that shit.

    • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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      4 months ago

      TempleOS becomes the rightful inheritor of the digital world at last

      • Wheaties [comrade/them]
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        4 months ago

        :angel-biblical-shh: ℑ𝔫𝔰𝔦𝔱𝔢 𝔦𝔰 𝔤𝔯𝔞𝔫𝔱𝔢𝔡, 𝔢𝔶𝔢𝔰 𝔬𝔭𝔢𝔫 𝔦𝔫𝔴𝔞𝔯𝔡, 𝔩𝔦𝔭𝔰 𝔰𝔢𝔞𝔩𝔢𝔡

  • neo [he/him]
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    4 months ago

    they're still there. if you combine a slurp juice with a web dev you can get a new web dev job