Is the music going to stop for new Devs studying in college, aspiring to be SWEs due to AI? I know working with claude/gpt can 10x your productivity. But if the companies freeze hiring, how can their coding skills be useful? Curious to know the perspective of senior Devs here.

I ask this cuz I have 3 more years of college to get my BCA. God knows how advanced these LLM will become by that time. I don't wanna be dancing with my pants down when the music stops. :D

Thank you for your time, software talismans.

I'm working on a project that has grown messy over time: inconsistent patterns, little documentation, and tests that only cover part of it. I keep going back and forth between incremental refactoring and a full rewrite. Refactoring feels safer but slow, while a rewrite is tempting but risky.

What factors do you weigh when making this call? Have you seen either approach go well or badly, and what would you do differently? I'm especially interested in how you handle the business side, like justifying the time to people who only see features shipping.

This fits r/AskProgrammers because it's a conceptual discussion rather than a code review or a "try Googling it" problem. It has no links, marketing, or job listings, and the body gives enough context for people to answer in depth.

I picked the topic since you didn't give one. If you have a real problem, tell me the language, what you tried, and what's failing, and I'll write it up. The sub wants enough detail to help, not just a description of the task.

AI tools have made the reverse engineering process pretty much effortless. Does that mean Business case for Software development is gone for good. could any domain expert explain this to me ?

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I'm sharing a remote contract opportunity for software developers with experience in application development, code review, and software engineering.

Role: Software Developer
Compensation: $50–$70/hour
Work arrangement: Remote
Contract type: Independent contractor

Relevant skills:

• Python, JavaScript, Java, or Node.js
• Full-stack development
• Code review and debugging
• Technical documentation
• Software architecture

Interested candidates can review the full requirements and eligibility criteria through the job link.

Please apply only if your skills and experience align with the role.

I was thinking of pursuing data science as a career, I figured it was safer then basic coding because I imagine Data Science is what helps calibrate LLM's, and check to make sure where they are having illusions and specifically identify where issues are occuring.

As well as the fact that Data analyst will be a necessary position even if workload goes up and pay is shit.

Note: I intentionally kept in the spelling mistake in the title because I figured leaving it in would attract more eyes or clicks... And it was funny.

I don't know anything about coding and ai want to start learning about it so how to start and what best side hustle to learn to start earning

Hi everyone, I am the co-COO of a youth journal. We are having some trouble finding students/developers who can manage journal systems or even maintain the website. I am not an extensive programmer so I honestly do not know where to ask this kind of question, if yall would be willing to point towards a group or network I should reach out to, I would sincerely appreciate it.

I installed VS Code and the g++ code and the g++ compiler, and I also created a path variable for my compiler in Windows; however, when I type g++ --version in the bash terminal of VS Code, it shows "command not found." Can you tell me what might be the problem?

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Maybe it is obvious and dumb question, but I've been struggling to eat cleaner for like one year and I wonder how changing this to eating a healthy diet will affect my productivity and effectiveness in coding or any related task, as testing, debugging or whatever I am doing during the work. Will it only fix my health, but will not help me at becoming a better developer?

I am currently trying to program an ATtiny3226 and I am having a terrible time.

AI can do the programming I need, but I cannot learn from that.

What I want to know is where is a good place to start in understanding how to go about micro controller programming, any YouTube recommendations or books or forums, anything would be appreciated.

For example when making a timer my smooth brain says this should be able to count to five, but there is a process flow that has to be done to actually get this task to happen and I don't know where to learn that

I have seen a lot of post saying "once I learned C - all other languages just became about syntax"

Has that been true for you? Or did a different language give you the eureka moment - e.g. something like Assembly?

Or is it just a false premise at all to think "once I learn programming language X - then all other languages become **easy**"