[mhitza]

Jobs are trully ridiculous in today's market. Not only you have to be "AI-native" with more years of experience with GenAI code, than the time it started getting popular, but you also get jobs that require you to know Claude Code in'n out, as if no other agent coding exists.

[dijksterhuis]

on my data engineering masters the course leader told us about a job advert he’d seen one time. the job needed hadoop experience, like 7 years worth.

hadoop had only existed for 5 years at the time, at most.

he figured that someone in HR got the draft for the job advert and just added in the 7 years as a guess based on another role they were hiring for.

edit — number of years required with specific technology is just a hand wavy estimate of how important it is for the role. never treat the numbers as gospel. that was the lesson he was teaching us.

[surgical_fire]

This can play in your favor if you are experienced enough.

See, it is bullshit, but it is also easy enough. Claude Code is not inscrutable, this is much easier than learning, say, a new programming language. You can meaningfully learn enough to pass an interview in a couple of weeks. It's basically the same amount of information you need to learn to hype AI in HN comment section.

So yeah, I think AI is a deadend technology, far from being as useful as everyone invested on it claims. But I have been using it liberally just so I am on top of this shit, since it is the current hype cycle.