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by stalfosknight 48 days ago
This right here is exactly where I've been at mentally and emotionally for the last couple of years.

I worked so hard to break into web dev in the very late 2010s because the deal supposedly was:

1. Learn to code 2. Get your first real job as a software developer 3. Enjoy your comfortable middle-class lifestyle

but I barely got to enjoy any of this before the calendar switched over to 2020 and it's been one fucking thing after another.
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bluefirebrand 48 days ago
Yeah, it's been a pretty big, nasty rug pull on a lot of us who spent years building these skills

Just another "fuck you" from a society that has been pulling up the ladder our whole lives

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xienze 48 days ago
Software developers themselves share a lot of the blame for this AI stuff. They geeked out so hard about the exciting possibilities of the tech that they didn't stop to think that the managers and CEOs would happily cut developers out of the equation as soon as the developers made the tech sufficiently advanced.
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DarkTree 48 days ago
Agreed, and unfortunately for the group of us who did realize this and pushed back are seen as luddites and just don't understand how amazing the technology is.
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xienze 48 days ago
The other funny part is the same folks who go on about "software developers should unionize!!!" conveniently forget that one of the things unions make sure to do is resist attempts to automate away their jobs.
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bluefirebrand 48 days ago
Believe me I know, and I truly resent other devs who were involved in building AI and the ones who have tripped over themselves in their haste to adopt AI
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throwway120385 48 days ago
I graduated in 2008. It's been one thing after another my whole life.
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Rotundo 48 days ago
Yeah, 1993 here. Same.

Not only one thing after another, but often the same things all over again after a decade or so.

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antisthenes 48 days ago
No, not the same.

You had more periods of stability and low inflation/ZIRP to build wealth and skills.

93-00, 02-08, 2012-2019

Millenials only had the one, and you were pretty SOL if you graduated anywhere between 08 and 2011. Oh and the later period of this (2017-2024) saw astronomical price increases on real estate.

There's a reason we're called the 2nd lost generation.

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