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Beermedear t1_j0yz8ji wrote

If your company isn’t relying on investor capital to fund risk-heavy emerging tech, you’re as fine as someone can be in generally poor economic forecasts.

Most of us non-startups are probably seeing some form of hiring freezes or limiting to backfills only until end of Q1.

No guarantees in tech, but this doomsaying is a little annoying.

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The_Nauticus t1_j11ad3x wrote

I like your practical take.

There was a 'market correction' a few years ago (2018?) here in the bay area, CA. It was ultimately the result of multiple unicorn IPOs at companies that weren't profitable and still running on VC funds. (At least that's my interpretation)

To people here, they thought it was a sign of bad times to come, but the rest of the country barely noticed it.

Ever since then, they've been predicting another recession, but haven't been right yet.

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mikasjoman t1_j116cf3 wrote

I'm more scared of how fast I see AI possibly taking over my role as a coder.

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Beermedear t1_j119qq6 wrote

People said the same thing with all the WYSIWYG shit like Wix. I’ve worked in manufacturing where people were afraid that robot tech would take their job. Not true in either case.

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mikasjoman t1_j11aw7h wrote

Well 2022 was the year I started using AI to help me write code at work (Gitlab copilot). And its often scary I can tell you how you just start writing something and a second later you have 100 lines of code in front of you that does exactly what your want. At this point we are kind of where it's most often right, but you got to fix some quirks and read through or make some changes since it isn't exactly right. Wysiwyg was crap compared to this.

While robots did take away jobs, trust me I have worked in china where factories went from tens of thousands of employees to just over a hundred - AI is a different child because how fast it's evolving. I know I'm definitely not alone among programmers to share this concern.

The difference is that two years ago it was kind of a thing of the future, now I use AI to help me write code all day long. I'm basically training it to take over my job which is kind of nuts.

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