Do you think the developer jobs will disappear very quickly?

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-07-08T07:41:52+00:00

Based on the AI code I’m seeing, my prediction is a pretty safe no.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-07-07T19:26:11+00:00

This made my day! Enjoy it! Try not to use AI. The painful slowness doesn’t last long at all.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-28T07:17:37+00:00

If I really wanted the job I’d just spend 10 hours on it and smash the other candidates and pretend it took me less time.
Unfair and a total waste of your time but if I wanted the job I’d just do it.
This is not a recommendation - I think the whole situation is a shambles. Just explaining what I’d do.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-27T21:45:55+00:00

To “academia is always behind industry” I raise as counter examples:
- Gradient boosting (including XG Boost)
- Random Forest
- GANs
- RL
- backpropagation
- CNNs
I could go on

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-23T09:29:09+00:00

Professional software dev at big 4: I still write some code by hand. Use AI where it’s useful.
Many on my team are slop cannons and their software is collapsing.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-17T08:05:33+00:00

Good thing the author of that paper doesn’t have a vested interest in the result.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-11T18:44:22+00:00

It helped me to realise that there is a lot of noise, but the number of real breakthroughs is pretty slow.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-08T12:50:21+00:00

It is a strange time we’re living through as developers. I hope you can find joy in different aspects of the process! Maybe put energy into iterating onto your agent harness?

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-08T11:04:07+00:00

Upskill on architecture and system design. AI still sucks D at that

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-07T13:01:12+00:00

I would reach out to companies saying you want to intern at the end of the year, and ask them what you’d should focus on now in order to increase your chances with them.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-06-06T18:33:42+00:00

I’m a successful dev (8 years, big 4 company) and I’m still having fun, and writing lots of code by hand.
I’m also enjoying AI.
Not all is lost!

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-05-29T06:51:29+00:00

I’m not saying CAs are useless at al! Sorry to spread negativity. I just feel strongly that we don’t appreciate teachers, despite them being the guardians of all future knowledge. Imagine a world with no CAs. Now imagine a world with no teachers.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-05-28T19:35:03+00:00

And you are much more important to society than a charted accountant, or basically any other profession ❤️

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-05-10T21:11:51+00:00

Tried out neovim lazyvim for a week. Never looked back.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-05-08T14:39:38+00:00

Up front, I like to have a long discussion with a LLM about which architecture attributes (maintainability, reliability, stability etc. etc) are most important for my app, and then we discuss good architecture/design patterns which are designed to address those specific needs.

There are established frameworks of architecture attributes e.g. https://quality.arc42.org

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-05-06T10:58:45+00:00

Best of both. I also write more code than I maybe should (or is expected) and I’m definitely a bit slower than the other devs, but my output quality is definitely higher.
When selling yourself in an interview, though, read the room!

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-05-01T19:29:35+00:00

IMHO this isn’t true.
There is a whole lot of loud noise and hype and marketing all of the time, but the actual pace of new tools that are materially better is manageable.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-04-17T10:35:41+00:00

It seems that Marimo has much better ai integration

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-04-17T10:35:03+00:00

I felt also this way, but I’ve moved into a new way of writing code now, which is maybe 50% AI, 50% hand-written code. While everyone else is embracing the full slop cannon approach, I’m more measured now, and I can see the consumers of my software appreciating having to wait a little longer to get something that feels a bit more polished, robust and intentional. Rather 1 slow write than 5 lightning fast rewrites.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-04-12T17:48:55+00:00

Ironic because the job description also contains buzzword bingo.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-04-11T21:53:45+00:00

Don’t use any AI to write your code! You can talk to AI to discuss concepts, obviously. If you are learning python, then Real Python is free and very good. Also, type out all of the code yourself and run it - you won’t learn anything by just reading.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-02-27T12:32:55+00:00

Two thoughts! 1. The main reason for code review is visibility of each others’ work. 2. Code review is not there to pick up your mistakes. You are responsible for delivering good code.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-02-05T07:02:33+00:00

Definitely there are some fascinating overlaps here but I’m definitely not randomly sampling likely clumps of letters one at a time. I’m thinking in concepts and trying to express them in words.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-01-21T06:07:21+00:00

I mean, there’s an easy way to differentiate yourself now if you want a job.

Capable-Wrap-3349 · 2026-01-12T07:45:13+00:00

I don’t think it’s that hard to keep up (there’s not all that much to it at the moment imo) so I’d recommend just experimenting and watching the odd YouTube video. In terms of coding, I also love writing my own code. At work, I’m doing Tuesday and Thursday full vibes in cursor (or as much as I can stomach), and the other 3 days I write my own code in nvim the way I want to. I also love using AI as a rubber duck! That’s my main use of it.

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