>Shawn K., a software engineer with 20+ years of experience, was making ~$150k in upstate New York until his entire team was replaced by AI tooling in mid-2024. Since then, he’s applied to over 1,200 roles across the U.S. and hasn’t received a single offer, despite multiple final rounds. Recruiters tell him companies are “pausing hiring” or “leaning on automation.” He’s burned through his savings, sold his house, and now lives in a trailer while driving DoorDash just to stay afloat.Can someone please help me understand why programmers are killing their own field? It makes no sense.
>>108577454Keeeeek codetrans lost. He should have become a vibeGOD instead but it’s too late for him
>>108577473You will be hung by your neck. You will scream for mercy but there will be none at all as you descend into the abyss.You can get angry all you want. We'll still be miles ahead of you at all times.
>>108577454>"Shawn K.">""making ~$150k in upstate New York"">"""he’s applied to over 1,200 roles across the U.S. and hasn’t received a single offer""">""""DoorDash just to stay afloat""""
>>108577454no wonder the doordash drivers screech so hard whenever they see zipline drones doing 10 mile deliveries in 10 minutes for $0.25 in electricity and no labor costs other than the cost for someone to load the order into the drone.
>>108577454>driving DoorDash just to stay afloatthis can't be allowed, we need to make more delivery robots
>>108577490Holy seethe
>>108577454He should've been rich by now with 20 years work experience. What was he doing with all that money?
>>108577547It ultimately depends on how long he was making $150K in Upstate NY. If he is stupid enough to live there as a professional software engineer then odds are most of those 20+ years of experience were in the $40K-$70K income bracket. He probably had less than $30K in liquid assets when he was let go. His first mistake was to be born in Upstate New York, his second mistake was to stay there.
>>108577454>his entire team was replaced by AI toolingif you braindead larper who built entire carrier by copy\pasting from stackoverflow you get that you deserve.REAL CHADs can't be replaced by Ai, only monkeys and ni/g/gers
>>108577454their not. I got laid of last year and recently retired back with a 75% pay increase.
>>108577454$150k is really kind of pathetic.
>>108577454Not this shit again. Yawn
>>108577454skill issue, i got my current job 6 month ago, and i get multiple offers per month.
>>108577998I haven't seen anyone who completed compsci textbooks remain unemployed too long
>>108578043upstate new york means he was in like the boonies bro, the median is like 40k there.
>>108577454>my baby 'skill' in writing shit code using a million fucking libraries has lost its inflated valueMaybe try learning how an architecture works at bare metal and code in Assembly like a real fucking man. You will have so many potential options with that skill set, from reverse engineering to programming for embedded devices, that AI cannot hallucinate a valid answer for.
>>108578433??? 90% of reversing is ai powered these days
>>108577454>20+ years of experience>$150k????????????????????????????????????????????what a fake ass "story"
>>108578484the real worlf ismt a tech uyoutuber videi anonm
>>108578502did you just stroke out?
>>108577454It's the last thrust of the true nerd; everything must be mapped to the lowest possible complexity class. Much like the priest labors so that one day there will be no need of priests.
>>108577454Always been like that. First thing programmers did is killing the computers (a job people used to have), then killing off most of accountants and statisticians. And a looooot of stuff in between. Other jobs. And it came full circle, in a way.Except it's not the first time they did it. Code generation tools, no-code, visual coding etc existed prior ot AI-boom.
>>108578511No, I recognize that. It's alcohol.
>>108578511no I was holding my bowl of pasta in one hand and chewing a bite of it while typing with my non dominant hand while the laptop sat on my lap at a weird angle
>>108577454maybe look us post car and then new stradale then think again
>>108577454He should vibecode a doordash robot
>>108577547The sewer rats stole the money
>>108577454I'd like to see AI do my job.Seriously.AI do my job.I'm so sick of fixing cars.
Because they love improving things! That's how we got the technological hell of today, a straight line from the idiotic hippies of bell labs to palantir.
