[MongooseStudios]

Seen the news recently? People have been discovering that the LLMs are snake oil lately. I think we are only starting to see how truly bad they are in reality. "AI takes all our jobs someday" almost certainly. It's not today, and I'm pretty sure LLMs aren't gonna get us there.

If you're tired of working for the kind of idiot that sees "AI will replace everyone in your company for cheap" and starts drooling I don't blame you. I'm pretty sick of the industry too.

But I don't think AI is a good reason to quit.

[apatheticonion]

> Seen the news recently? People have been discovering that the LLMs are snake oil lately.

Sources? That would cheer me up for sure, haha.

> If you're tired of working for the kind of idiot that sees "AI will replace everyone in your company for cheap" and starts drooling I don't blame you. I'm pretty sick of the industry too.

Yeah you're probably right and I suppose this is more a factor than AI itself.

The company I work for has been stack ranking for about a year and a half. It's exhausting and, combined with the onslaught of AI hype, it's pretty easy to slip into a pattern of thought where I feel I contribute no value.

So AI might just be the proverbial straw.

It also doesn't help that the engineering landscape in Australia is a bit lacklustre when it comes to anything more complicated than web/app development. Would love to work on operating systems or crazy hardware projects like piloting software or robotics.

[MongooseStudios]

https://aicodinghorrors.com/ - the database deletion one was how I found out this site exists.

https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o... - somewhat controversial because measuring different tasks. But nobody can measure dev tasks anyway.

https://venturebeat.com/ai/stack-overflow-data-reveals-the-h... - Saw this very recently, haven't dug in to the sources.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/ Talks a LOT about the AI hype bubble in general.

The landscape here in the US sucks too. Layoffs and offshoring are still going strong. Everything new is some stupid AI startup. I kinda thought I was done too until I got laid off and started working on my own projects to stay sharp.

Realized I still love making stuff. Just hate the corporate games.

[GianFabien]

Two perennial opportunities in Australia IT are fixing up outsourced systems and building workarounds for enterprise shovelware.

Job ads tend to be for Java/C# coding and project managers willing to harangue techies to deliver improbable results to impossible schedules with meagre budgets