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  pauletienney
  > Will AI replace developers? The Stanford data shows a tilt toward seniority rather than mass displacement: entry for 22 to 25 year olds is suffering, older workers are growing. WEF expects a net gain of 78 million jobs by 2030.As a 42 years old web developper, this situation gives me headaches. I feel both with new superpowers and dangerously threatened. I feel we will need much less developpers and yet I can imagine some years where a developper will be able to handle much larger projects.
• y-c-o-m-b
  These lists must be hallucinating.> AI Engineer. Number one on LinkedIn Jobs on the Rise in the US two years running, number one at Robert Half. About 1,550 new US postings a week, median 176,000 dollars. This is the engineer who puts LLMs into products: RAG, agents, fine-tuning, evaluation.I'm doing all those things. The RAG work was interesting, but putting it on my resume has done nothing. Nobody is hiring. I have recent multi-year FAANG experience too. Before 2023 I could blast out 10 resumes and get at least 8 or so hits with multiple offers. Now I can send out 100 resumes and lucky if I get a single rejection letter. I am seeing the same thing reported by other white-collar working people like HR reps and project managers in all industries. There is definitely a stealth recession/depression scenario playing out right now and has been for at least the last two years.
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  orangedog
  Is it possible to jump into this with a background as a senior dev or is it too late? I don't know where to get started, would you just look like a junior or entry level candidate by doing that?
• sigbottle
  What's the best way to get into any kind of frontier training or inference? Obviously OpenAI and Anthropic would be great, but I would love to work at inference literally anywhere. LLMs are super cool and I want more systems problems. Or is the boat sailed and it's too hard to get in?My current issue is that solo learning and bootstrapping is hella expensive money wise and my current job doesn't pay that much either.
• vjvjvjvjghv
  I am glad that I just retired. I find AI super fascinating but navigating a SW development career in the next few years looks like a daunting task.
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  password54321
  Mostly title inflation. Using GPT API does not make you an "AI engineer". I don't even know if anyone would seriously call themselves this. Usually they are either software developers that actually work at an AI company or a researcher. The others are mostly fake jobs.I'm pretty sure people suddenly had BS like "Blockchain engineer" in their linkedin headline in 2022.Edit: https://openai.com/careers/search/?q=Engineer Most jobs involving engineering don't even have AI included in their title at OpenAI, though they do have Applied AI engineers and AI support engineers. I highly doubt these other companies suddenly have a huge growth of AI engineering jobs available.
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  codechicago277
  Pangram flags this post as 100% AI
• AndrewKemendo
  > That is exactly what working with small and mid-size businesses looks like: find the process where AI pays off, build the agent or the integration, and get it to the people who will use it.This is exactly right.I’m making good side money from building and integrating “AI” with small business tools.Custom CRMs and tracking solutions so they don’t have to buy salesforce etc…Notably this doesn’t reliably work for juniors, which supports the article.You need to already have experience making enterprise scale software, otherwise you’re going to miss some massive authentication or data exposure problem.I anticipate the return of the software consulting company like initech, but instead of having Tom and Milton and Samir and Peter etc…, you only have Lumburgh and Michael Bolton.
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  lifestyleguru
  > The median ML engineer in Germany earns 70,000 euros.The numbers are stuck at 2018 levels. Accumulated inflation since then is over 20%. This bubble is not glamorous at all.
• vanuatu
  ai slop article, but if you want to maximize earnings in any tech boom the best opportunities lie at the companies driving that boom.
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  timr
  this reads like AI slop.
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  vouaobrasil
  I would like to have a resource, or maybe a coalition of companies that sign up and offer jobs that are guaranteed not to use AI. Although it might be true that there are some new jobs that didn't exist before, it would be great for people to band together to create a system that promotes the human element over using AI.