• spudwart@spudwart.com
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    1 year ago

    Can vouch, everyone told me growing up that computer jobs were a safe and stable choice because “everyone needs computers.”

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      1 year ago

      That may be true with IT departments but maybe not as necessarily for developers

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        1 year ago

        Are these actually developers getting laid off? I recall seeing similar posts like this last year and it turns out they just laid off middle management and sales positions, and kept the actual devs

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          The Linkedin layoffs today were mostly engineering people, although a chunk of them were middle management. Not sure though if they were operations people (IT running the systems) or devs.

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        IT support by staff like sysadmins can hardly be replaced in the near future.
        I don’t see AI being able to setup a whole environment itself.

        Creative jobs on the other hand…

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          Developers are often the ones setting up the environments now via things like Terraform. IT is still needed for on-prem work though.

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            And who sets up those? If sysadmin jobs are killed for on premise at companies at the very least they will be needed for datacenter work.

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        I agree, but when most of my “elders” growing up believed computers to be this magical voodoo money printer box that just happens to go on facebook, It’s not suprising they believed any job relating to a computer was safe and stable.

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          It’s true to an extent. It largely depends on what exactly you do with the compiuters. Devs are the easiest to layoff because there are a ton of them and a lot of fresh graduates are programmers. If you’re in a more specialized field in tech, you have pretty good job security.

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      It’s definitely a good choice. And there will always be jobs. But job security is pretty minimal.