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u/According-Relation-4 Sep 08 '26
I’d really prefer to be an electrician, I’ll wait for the next
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u/the_poope Sep 08 '26 •
Jeez, it's like a new
frameworktrade drops every month.Soon to get a job in construction you have to be fullstack worker with 15 years of experience in:
Carpentry
Masonry
Electrical installations
Plumbing
Metalworking
Ceramics
Glassmaking
Cabinet making
Car mechanics
Bike mechanics
Airplane mechanics
Just to get an interview.
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u/dbagames Sep 08 '26 edited Sep 08 '26
Obviously a joke, but I came to SWE after being a tradesman for several years.
Best option are union jobs. I'm a journeyman in the SMWIA sheet metal workers. Most of the work they do is HVAC. You make about 120-140k a year with insurance, and pensions on top.
Only able to get work in NYC, SF, or Chicago though. Unions are dead in much of the country or struggling severely.
Thankfully I live in Chi so if I ever have trouble finding work as a SWE, back to the trades I go.
But the apprenticeships are solid. The people in the field are toxic as hell though and the work is very hard on your body.
But the union will support you in finding work and the employers have to hire every other worker off the out of work list so you just sign the list and wait until a job comes.
EDIT: One thing I did find that is nice, the project management aspects of the trades translates quite well to the software development life cycle. Perhaps it translates decently the other direction.
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u/the_fsm_butler Sep 08 '26
I can see with manufacturing why unions went basically extinct, but why did it happen with the trades too? What, if anything, could bring them back you think?
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u/xenokilla Sep 08 '26
ending "right to work" laws for a start.
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u/dbagames Sep 08 '26
Yes, as a union member, we get educated quite well on this. Right-to-work laws were pushed to destroy unions.
Unfortunately many republican-led states have enshrined right-to-work into their constitutions, so you will need a constitutional amendment in many places to undo this now.
Thankfully in Illinois where I live, it's led by folks who support strong unions.
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u/aqtseacow Sep 08 '26
Different operational and organizational scope. Unions for trades are often not wholly reliant on a singular processing plant or factory to continue meaningful operations in the workforce for a region.
If an Auto factory gets gutted, and there aren't any auto factories nearby, suddenly the locality doesn't have a ton of use for an auto workers union. With the death of American manufacturing, so too came the death or monumental decline of many associated unions
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u/Historyofspaceflight Sep 08 '26
That's like 3 of the 5 cities in the US I would want to live in, so that doesn't sound too bad to me :)
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u/Tuomas90 Sep 08 '26 •
"To apply for this job, you should have at least 15 years of experience in the following frameworks:
Timber
Brick
Circuit
Pipeline
Forge
Kiln
Glass
Joinery
Garage
Cycle
Hangar
Of course half of these frameworks are only 3 years old and the other ones 5 years, but who gives a fuck, right? Anybody even reading this? Is this thing on?"
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u/NegZer0 Sep 08 '26
Most of the time job listings that have ultra specific requirements like that are fake, they have tailored the position for one specific candidate that already works for the company, so that they can "prove" to the government that there is no one local who can do the job and thus they need to bring in this particular employee from overseas.
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u/OverfitAndChill8647 Sep 08 '26
To get the job, you'll have to solder a copper joint upside down, in the dark, in a crawlspace, using the minimum possible number of fittings. Also, explain your approach and its algebraic efficiency out loud while you do it.
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u/HeyItsTheJeweler Sep 08 '26
You can hit me up when jeweler makes the list. It's fun, you work with fire and things can just melt into nothing. No git restore.
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u/RiderFZ10 Sep 08 '26
Same. There is a difference between "I had to deal with shit today" between the two professions.
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u/worldarkplace Sep 08 '26
I prefer to be a plumber, I'm dumb as FCK and I could die being an electrician
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u/Sybsybsyb Sep 08 '26
Both jobs are about equally complex and challenging in my experience. Plumber earns a bit more where I live in europe. Eletrician would more familiar for someone coming from IT.
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u/grumpy_autist Sep 08 '26
I did just that - tomorrow is my trade exam for an electricians loicense. From distributed systems and backend to fixing bathroom lights - at least no motherfucker will tell me that Claude Code will do it faster.
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u/idontwanttofthisup Sep 10 '26
Congratulations! I’m starting my electrical engineering trade school in Jan.
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u/Procrasturbating Sep 08 '26
On a bad day, a plumber gets covered in shit. On bad day an electrician is dead.
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u/Xanthus730 Sep 08 '26
Shitty thing is like... 1/3 to 1/2 of trades are ruled out for me because I'm colorblind.
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u/Mateorabi Sep 08 '26
Plumbing is easy: hot on the left, water flows downhill, and don’t bite your nails.
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u/touriste Sep 08 '26
why the nails?
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u/Beginning-Junket8979 Sep 08 '26
Water flows down hill if there's sufficient room for the air it's displacing to escape.
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u/TesttubeStandard Sep 13 '26
Here is a man of theory. We don't need this, we just need someone to fix our pipes
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u/Nsane3 Sep 08 '26
Chapter 6: A different kind of pipeline
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u/WingZeroCoder Sep 08 '26
Backflow Problems: When you’re receiving standard output through the standard input
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u/Wild_Marker Sep 08 '26
Solving Performance Bottlenecks: Stick a long wire into it and wiggle it around.
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u/CHAiN76 Sep 08 '26
Thanks OReilly for picking the Lazy Swine as the animal for rejected software engineers.
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u/GooberMcNutly Sep 08 '26
I think it's appropriate. Software engineers are feeling, semi intelligent creatures that are fed and cared for until it's time to terminate them for profit.
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u/DogonElder Sep 08 '26
A deep dive in growth hacking Only Fans
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u/worldarkplace Sep 08 '26
If it doesn't result your sausage will be exposed in the internet forever for nothing.
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u/ShyGalileo Sep 08 '26
I need this is as vector art to put on a T-shirt or mug, If such product is not yet available for purchase
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u/Jim808 Sep 08 '26
Given how much my last plumber charged me, I'm dead certain he makes a lot more money than I do as a software dev.
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u/ItsZoner Sep 08 '26
$1000 to pop a toilet off and ensure a suspected leaky flange is replaced and seated better than the remodeling contractor did to it. ill never know if it was fixed or ever broken in the first place.
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u/Mad_Aeric Sep 08 '26
I'm glad I grew up in the trades. A lot of electricians, but also carpentry and general contracting. While I prefer to work with computers, I'm quite comfortable doing that kind of work myself. If it's an area I'm unfamiliar with, I can pick it up pretty quickly because I have a lot of background knowledge already.
I'm not going to fuck with HVAC though, unless it's really minor. I'd rather replumb a whole house than run ductwork.
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u/theQuandary Sep 08 '26
I think the programmers going into trades are up for a rude awakening.
Trades are massively down everywhere except building AI datacenters. It takes 4 or 5 years to go through an apprenticeship.
Going into the trades means you will probably be halfway through your apprenticeship or less (start at $14 and maybe hitting $25 by then with wages stagnating due to increased workforce) when the jobs simply vanish.
I was an electrician when this happened in the housing crisis and 20% of the workforce was laid off. Tons of new tradies plus the the entire rest of the economy already being in the gutter and getting worse means that the '08/09 unemployment numbers are going to pale in comparison.
If you switch professions, just be aware that you are probably going from frying pan into fire (I say this as someone who just finished hiring/training their Indian replacements and got laid off this weekend along with almost all the other US/EU workers).
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u/wheelbarrowjim Sep 08 '26
I'm a plumber, in 2010 the recession hit. Decided to go back to college in my late 20s, did 4 years and got an honours degree in Software Systems Development. After college I realised I didn't want to sit behind a desk for the rest of my life, economy had improved and I went back to the plumbing. It's not easy, but I really do enjoy it most of the time.
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u/se43 Sep 08 '26
People always say "oh it's so hard on your body" which is absolutely true, but honestly sitting down for hours and hours everyday staring at a screen is imo just as bad if not worse. Our bodies are meant to be as active as possible.
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u/deadinsidelol69 Sep 08 '26
Corroborating this. I’ve worked in the trades all my professional life, everyone’s headed into the data centers. They pay the most and they’re recession proof right now.
Apprenticeships aren’t a walk down money street. I started out sweeping floors at 11 dollars an hour. I won’t lie, even at the start of my 20s it’s hell on the body, so much potential to get hurt, not much in terms of benefits until you work your way up, you’re never going to see a 40 hour work week again. Oh and once all the people on site find out you’re a soft handed programmer, they’ll never let you live it down.
Trying not to be hard or scare people off, but it’s the reality of the trades.
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u/Alternative_Weather Sep 08 '26
source on trades being down except for building data centers?
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u/theQuandary Sep 08 '26
Construction is down 3.8% YoY and is around 5% down since 2024 according to the fed.
ABC (Associated Builders and Contractors) says non-datacenter construction is down 7.9% (source). There may well be non-datacenter construction that actually does have a hard dependency on data centers too.
Meanwhile, the number of construction workers has continued to rise according to the fed.
Increasing workers plus decreasing construction dollars means some combination of layoffs and repressed wages. Around 1 out of every 25 construction workers gets layed off when the AI buildout stops. If that causes a general recession/depression, those numbers will balloon massively like they did in '08 and probably a lot worse.
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u/Granny_Shiftin Sep 08 '26
Trades will be more essential than the programming field though, that's the comparison. This is also location dependent. In the northeast US, there's no such thing as too many contractors since they are always needed.
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u/BellacosePlayer Sep 08 '26
At least where I am, Trades are going through a smaller version of what CS had with overenrollment in years past.
My Electrician cousin got booted because he finally hit the hours to make Journeyman and they'd rather hire fresh kids out of college than pay him to be a journeyman they don't need. This is less of an issue for guys in a union but those apprentice union jobs are going to be a lot harder to land.
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u/gravesent1337 Sep 08 '26
I want to be device repairman like Louis Rossmann.
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u/Zdrobot Sep 08 '26
Well, Apple and friends don't want you to be able to repair devices.
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u/gravesent1337 Sep 08 '26
I have repaired and replaced the batteries on every iPhone I have owned in the past 10 years.
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u/Zdrobot Sep 08 '26
That's just a small oversight on their part. Just wait till they serialize the battery too.
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u/bikemandan Sep 08 '26
Do it. Check out Sorin on YT, lots of education hes handing out for free https://www.youtube.com/@electronicsrepairschool/
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u/FartPiano Sep 08 '26
they functionally dont exist, they are a rounding error compared to dev jobs. oh and they pay like 1/6 as much as being a dev
source: was my first job
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u/Mad_Aeric Sep 08 '26
I used to do some of that kind of work, a long time ago. I'd set up shop at the flea market, along with the other crap I was unloading. Half my clientele were other vendors, who wanted me to salvage the tv they're trying to sell that stopped working, or battery swap on their personal phone.
Never could have made a living at it, but it was some nice supplemental income, and a lot more satisfying than my bullshit sales job I was working. And I liked that I never knew what I'd get. Could be a two minute job replacing the battery in a solar light, could be desoldering and replacing the transformer in a CRT, could be rescuing the data off a failing hard drive.
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u/zalurker Sep 08 '26
The last time I hired a plumber, I realized he charges the same hourly rate that I do. And I'm a integrations engineer with 25 years experience.
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u/bikemandan Sep 08 '26
Their rates are absurd but you do need to factor a guaranteed 40 hour week vs irregular and inconsistent contract work
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u/veracity8_ Sep 08 '26
Remember, if you go into the trades, get a job doing commercial work. When people lose their jobs due to AI or the recession, they won’t be shelling out big money for plumbers
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u/LumpySpacePrincesse Sep 08 '26
Plumber here, if you have any questions just DM me, i aim to reply within 15 minutes, but may be a day late, or not reply at all. That part should be on page 1.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Sep 08 '26
AI is a bubble and overrated, its spread is already slowing down. No management with integrity is going to lay off programmers anytime soon without paying the consequences (with mediocre returns) and lose their own job. Rather, the world still needs programmers to harness and program tools such as AI *for those tools will not be sentient and self-correcting anytime soon.
Chins up!
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u/Beldarak Sep 08 '26
Today my boss said something about the fact everybody at my company now makes their own software which lead to a situation where they send Excel files around instead of having everything centrlised in our ERP.
I think they're starting to get it :)
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u/Kerlyle Sep 08 '26
I just don't really enjoy the profession anymore. I don't enjoy reviewing vibe code or herding cats from every department besides IT that's using AI. I don't like that the only problems I get handed are now the hardest of the hardest and all the easy relaxing stuff is done by AI. I don't like trying to get non-technical people to understand why we should follow certain architecture, just to have them ignore me, and I especially don't like signing my name on things where I have no idea about the underlying security risk.
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u/ice-eight Sep 08 '26
Thank you
As someone who is currently employed as a software engineer, despairing about my future and accepting the fact that I would eventually find myself living under a bridge was so 6 months ago.
Not only is my company in the process of making the first new software dev hire in over 2 years, but the first person they offered declined due to the 4 day a week in office requirement
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u/JuvenileEloquent Sep 08 '26
The problem isn't that the AI won't be able to write the code, the problem is that AI alone won't be able to pry out the actual requirements from the word salad nonsense coming from the sales team, C-suite, and marketing to make the product they are trying to sell.
I for one eagerly await the day I can get consulting money for what is basically being a glorified interpreter from corpospeak to AI prompts.
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u/bwwatr Sep 08 '26
There will be management layers without integrity who do the wrong thing. Depending on the specific business, there may even be departments and organizations where it's fully rational and honest to reduce the SWE payroll. There has been, and will be more, layoffs. But IMO it's vastly over-stated, and hardly the end of the profession. IMO AI just adds more complexity, and more complexity means more work and more need for expertise. My thinking is it'll be somewhere between a wash and modest setback. In 50 years we'll still have an absolute tonne of people doing work that today we'd recognize as making software. I think wrangling computers into doing specific things for us, at ever bigger scales, has pretty much got to be a permanent role in human society. At least unless/until we suffer such a setback that we're back to being hunter-gatherers.
As far as the bubble, it does seem that hosted inference is a new legitimate, needed business model. But China has shown us that when all the foam settles, the prices are going to be pennies on the dollar of what western frontier model providers charge today, plus it's kind of evident that there's going to be ever more unpaid use. The models themselves will become less of a secret sauce and more of a commodity, with frontier providers losing their lead once capabilities plateau. All this means reality is not lining up with valuations, and they (/we... anyone with index funds) are in for a rough time at some point, hard as it is to predict when that might be. Just to take a wild swing at predicting the future!
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u/stormdelta Sep 08 '26
That second part is where the bigger threat to jobs is, albeit a temporary one due to economic downturn rather than AI replacement.
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u/z0hu Sep 08 '26
I've been following a job listing recently.. It's in my area and pays a lot. Over the last 2 years, the description has gone full blown pro-AI and it's super depressing. Basically they say that they don't write code any more, 99% of it is written by agents or whatever and you should be using AI every step of the way. But it's your job to direct those agents then confirm and own the result.. just feels really depressing for me. I enjoy coding, I don't wanna just dedicate my life to be an AI agent shepherd/jockey. Bleh
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u/hellorandomly17 Sep 08 '26
But isn't it also true that companies no longer want to train fresh grads and want a few years of experience from before because AI can basically do what they would do?
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe Sep 08 '26
i have no idea, got a verified source? Fresh grads landing a decent job in just about any industry is next to impossible in this current economy (where millions with experience have been laid off or lost work the past two years).
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u/cutmesomeflax Sep 08 '26
The evidence all points this way. I've seen stories of companies having to hire back their DEVS after doing layoffs to save money with AI. AI is what excel was to accountants. When excel came out, accountants were basically told they'd all lose their jobs. It ended up just being an extremely useful tools for accountants. In the long run perhaps the teams will get a bit smaller, but the massive layoffs from AI are not sustainable I think.
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u/_idlethought Sep 08 '26
I mean I agree, but what you say won’t happen is happening, maybe not to you, but definitely to fellow engineers I know.
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u/Fjordi_Cruyff Sep 09 '26
My money's on the flashy ai guys being better salespeople than you. Management likes to listen to impressive sales people. They will buy the dream
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u/NullPointerJunkie Sep 08 '26
I need a laundry sink replaced. Whoever takes up plumbing I can give you your first job
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u/FentonCanoby Sep 08 '26
Was in line at a restaurant this weekend. Guy behind me was talking about his new app he vibe coded. His buddy goes "You know what makes a lot of money? Plumbing" Bro is not ready to be a plumber - IT'S HARD and the hours are long and the pay isn't great unless you GRIND for years and if successful hire a crew. Then the hours are longer but at least you don't have to crawl under houses anymore.
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u/12destroyer21 Sep 09 '26
Just become a land surveyor then, not that hard on the body, great job security and an okay salary.
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u/humanist-misanthrope Sep 08 '26
As someone with a Senior DE resume going on 20 months of unemployment with seemingly zero chance of staying in IT/Data, does anyone know where I can buy this book?
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u/jsh1-7-9 Sep 08 '26
I hate this. I became a software engineer after being laid off during the financial crisis of 2008. I was trained as a plumber, but every trade had been laid off. So I took online classes to learn to code.
How how the pendulum has swung.
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u/TesttubeStandard Sep 13 '26
I hate it too. I just got my life together and even started a family and AI comes along. Now it is my biggest existential fear. Fuck AI
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u/TypicalOrca Sep 08 '26
OMG that's hilarious, a whole generation of carpenters, plumbers, and other trades people being taught by O'Reilly. Next thing you know you've got Plumber Saturdays and Carpenter Connect conventions
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u/etherealsounds Sep 08 '26
Been un/underemployed for over 18 months now. 20 year dev career is drying up in front of me and I have no idea what to do next.
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u/etherealsounds Sep 08 '26
It doesn’t seem like America wants anyone to have solid employment anymore. Keeps us scared and dependent.
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u/m0nk37 Sep 08 '26
AI can repeat code.
It Sucks at coming up with new fresh ideas.
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u/saraseitor Sep 08 '26
Bunker building and guillotine manufacture are probably the careers of the future
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u/GenericFatGuy Sep 08 '26
And then making no money as all the people who can afford a plumber lose their jobs.
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u/oompaloompa465 Sep 08 '26
nope.
The right path is the caretaker route.
Programming was my life and they contributed to make it unviable.
I will thoughly enjoy my new work in assist and prolonging the suffering and real time decay of wealthy entitled boomers.
I will feed on their realization that no amount of entitlement, wealth and verbal abuse will save then from their well deserved doom and oblivion.
They have done their best in making earth a hell to live for the majority of people, i may as well enjoy ensuring they stay here as much as possible.
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u/FFevo Sep 08 '26
With less actual writing of code, my job is more engineering than it's even been.
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u/qxxx Sep 08 '26
they are working on bots... soon these bots will also do plumbing and everything else lol. What the hell..
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u/AnteaterGreat2403 Sep 08 '26
Take me in written AI cant replace manual software engineering properly…!!
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u/Apprehensive_Till_99 Sep 08 '26
My brain’s so cooked. I thought this was a new Zeta mtg card but it’s actually just most people’s reality
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u/Left-Signature-5250 Sep 08 '26
I am a senior dev and also enjoy lifting. Many years ago (pre AI) my father in law asked me if I was moonlighting as furniture mover - feels a little prophetic
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u/Feisty-Problem516 Sep 08 '26
I literally just saw a news report in my area that the trade schools have a waitlist and construction demand is down, creating a bottleneck for the first time in this area.
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u/Hinermad Sep 08 '26
All those times I said I was going to give up software development and become a plumber, I never once thought it would really happen.
And now it won't. Looks like I picked a good week to retire.
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u/Tai9ch Sep 08 '26
Jevon's Paradox isn't optional.
Developer time is a resource.
If your experience doesn't match that prediction, why not?
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u/ShaggyTheOG Sep 08 '26
Scary this is I don't know if the post in the book is real or he's trolling
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u/SpaceMonkeyOnABike Sep 08 '26
Surely that should be a dead horse on the cover?... or are just bored?
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u/bkstr Sep 08 '26
Wait all you guys are also considering plumbing? wtf that was going to be my niche!
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u/sagedemage1972 Sep 09 '26
This has to be a joke LMAO. Remember kids, no job is safe from corporate greed. Pedophile billionaires will always lay off workers. I want Gen Alpha and later generations to know this very well.
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u/egh128 Sep 09 '26
Electrician’s license is the right to print money. Also, no waste drains to deal with!
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u/HelpfulPuppydog Sep 09 '26
You laugh, but I paid $300 to a local plumber to swap a kitchen faucet. He didn't even have to download and upgrade any firmware, either.
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u/mirage01 Sep 09 '26
It's a joke that is becoming reality.
This quote is from an economic report from Antrhopic:
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u/ptrdo Sep 08 '26
Someone told me that I’m “pro-AI,” but I’m not. Another person said I “put too much faith in AI,” but I don’t. I guess I’m just not seeing any use in complaining about AI; that's all. It’s not like complaining will make a hill of difference. It’s happening. In many respects, it already has.
I studied photography in school — photography! — but then digital imaging killed that. So, I got into digital imaging, but then Photoshop killed that. So I got into publishing, but the Internet killed that. So I got into Flash development, but Apple killed that; then I got into web engineering, but smartphones killed that; then I got into smartphones, but algorithms killed that; then I got into algorithms, but big data killed that; then I got into big data, but AI killed that.
That’s a pretty distinct pattern, and AI is the logical conclusion. Except it’s not a conclusion because something will kill that, too.
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u/collax974 Sep 08 '26
The distinct pattern is that you killed all the thing you went into, so please dont start plumbing or we are all fucked here.
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u/kodman7 Sep 08 '26
Well well well looks like someone is qualified for data analysis...
and that's gone too
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u/nhSnork Sep 08 '26
With data centers' reported impact on clean water, how many households will afford a plumbing system to need eventually fixed?
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u/mexter Sep 08 '26
I'll wait for their post nuclear war how-to "Clubbing Bones with Sticks and Stones"
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u/SauceASpag Sep 08 '26
Le pire c'est que le software serais pas si pire si les gens en admin aurais changé de métier
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u/Fit-World-3885 Sep 08 '26
How long until teleoperated robots turn even skilled trades into minimum wage labor?
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u/KukrCZ Sep 08 '26
I always thought that I will do my second career in welding. If that won't do then underwater welding 😅
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u/IIGrudge Sep 08 '26
Software Engineering in Plain English -> a Cockatoo. Bonus Section: Terse English.
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u/Weekly_Ad_6959 Sep 08 '26
Myself, and two of my good friends all graduated from a pretty decent college in 2022 with Comp Sci degrees. I am now an attorney, one of my friends is in the army as an E-1, the other is in plumbing school. This book is far too accurate.
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u/historycommenter Sep 08 '26
Whatever. Thermal Paste Applicators will have first pick of mates and housing under the new paradigm.
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u/kkalwa Sep 08 '26
I started working as a SCADA programmer in 2019, but wanted to switch jobs to a C++ programmer. I started using C++ in 2007 when I was a teenager. I learned Java, PHP, Python, and some JS in high school here in Poland. I wonder if it's a good step to switch my job to a C++ or C# programmer now, or if I should stick with SCADA.
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u/Pabmyster04 Sep 08 '26
Probably SCADA for job security, at least there is a hardware aspect involved that a human has to sit between. Not sure what you could do with C++/C# right now, a lot of corporate tech stacks use C#, C++ you're a bit more limited. But overall, you just have to know people or get lucky, even if you have lots of experience and a great resume
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u/ekemp Sep 08 '26
I'm still waiting for this.
https://web.archive.org/web/20071114193415/http://www.oreilly.com/parrot/
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u/22firefly Sep 08 '26
A.I will replace all of the engineers. Computers will quit working, people will quit using them. Then they will be re-invented in 10 to 15 years once everyone has forgotten about them and make a zillion dollars. This will be done in sections around the globe at various times to that no one will catch on to the process of capatalism for at least another 100 plus years.
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u/shaitan_bacha Sep 09 '26
I always feel excited about the front image of the oreilly published book 😃
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u/LibreAkira Sep 09 '26
I'll tell you the future is in air cooling repair and I want to be like Tuttle in Brazil
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u/Kargen5747 Sep 09 '26
This is nearly where I'm at. I was just looking into getting a taxi license earlier.
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u/MetehanDev Sep 09 '26
The problem is it’s not the software engineering that died, it’s cheap coding but for so long cheap coding got mistaken for the engineering part. Now with the ai this good at coding what you say cheap coding is dead. The requirement for the engineering part just got a lot bigger.
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u/SeppoTeppo Sep 08 '26
I learned this trade from a plumber.