As a (not so anymore) newly graduated computer engineer, this made me cry. Whenever I see threads like this the consolation thrown around is that someone with experience will always need to check the code and seniors didn’t used to write much code anyways. And juniors are all LLM jockeys anyways so who cares.
Well fuck me I guess, the last train to break into the industry departed 3 years ago when I thought I was learning my profession. A couple months ago I felt principled, I wanted a job where I wouldn’t be forced to vibe code. Now I’ll take anything.
At this rate even if I do manage to get hired, and even if by some muracle I’m allowed to write code there; the experience I gain from it wont be valued the same as someone who started working before LLMs became widespread. I’m a part of the slop generation now.
Makes me wonder what answer pr people want when they ask if and how I use ai. Do they want me to use them or not? If I use them, I accept that I have no place among the senior developers of tomorrow, if I don’t I’m missing on the one skill that companies looking to hire me expect me to have for the sake of something likely to be obsolete.
Maybe I shouldn’t have made being a developer a part of my identity while still in university. Is it time to let it go? Accept that I’ve spent years on something I wanted and believed would lead to a good life for it to just not pay off? That the safest most sensible fucking life choice imaginable just left me unemployable?
Maybe it’s for the best, as they say “Don’t turn your hobbies into a job”. But it breaks my heart to let go. Where would I even pivot here?
Sorry if this was rambling. This is a cry for help
As a (not so anymore) newly graduated computer engineer, this made me cry. Whenever I see threads like this the consolation thrown around is that someone with experience will always need to check the code and seniors didn’t used to write much code anyways. And juniors are all LLM jockeys anyways so who cares.
Well fuck me I guess, the last train to break into the industry departed 3 years ago when I thought I was learning my profession. A couple months ago I felt principled, I wanted a job where I wouldn’t be forced to vibe code. Now I’ll take anything.
At this rate even if I do manage to get hired, and even if by some muracle I’m allowed to write code there; the experience I gain from it wont be valued the same as someone who started working before LLMs became widespread. I’m a part of the slop generation now.
Makes me wonder what answer pr people want when they ask if and how I use ai. Do they want me to use them or not? If I use them, I accept that I have no place among the senior developers of tomorrow, if I don’t I’m missing on the one skill that companies looking to hire me expect me to have for the sake of something likely to be obsolete.
Maybe I shouldn’t have made being a developer a part of my identity while still in university. Is it time to let it go? Accept that I’ve spent years on something I wanted and believed would lead to a good life for it to just not pay off? That the safest most sensible fucking life choice imaginable just left me unemployable?
Maybe it’s for the best, as they say “Don’t turn your hobbies into a job”. But it breaks my heart to let go. Where would I even pivot here?
Sorry if this was rambling. This is a cry for help