[devtul]

I'm indeed panicking and haven't lost my job, yet, let's see in 3 weeks. I never worked at a FAANG and it terrifies me that if I'm out there I will be competing with people with big names on their resumes. This news coupled with the AI news of the past weeks is making me think about what other profession this forever developer can do to pay the bills.

I took the black pill. Maybe I can find wisdom in past professions' cataclysms, like ice harvesters and milk delivery.

[mguerville]

My smartest employers always said they preferred hiring the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers, or the stars from unheralded companies rather than the employee #987563 from big name logos.

Unfortunately that's not the norm, but I find branding yourself in that way can at least help overcome this challenge in the hiring process (if you get past the screener that only looks at these filters that is)

[dumbotron]

> the top decile from mid level colleges rather the average ivy leaguers

The problem with hiring from the ivies is these are people who got into ivies. They know how to game the system.

[dougmwne]

I think you should relax. Even if this AI hype is 100% real, we will be running massive IT projects for 20 years to convert everything over to AI run. Realistically, it will probably find a use case for a few niches, but not take over all work.

Unless we invent an actual superintelligence, in which case, no humans will be needed for work ever again and you will either live out your days in some kind of early retirement paradise or be fighting over the last can of cat food.

[tinyhouse]

Don't be terrified. People who get laid off in small layoff rounds smaller than 10% are often not that attractive in the job market. There are some exceptions like recruiters for example because usually their pie of the chart is much bigger than engineers for example.