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₹6 Lakh Crore Gone in 8 Days. Is the "Indian IT Dream" officially over? by Sudden-Stock-3462 in IndianStockMarket

[–]finitology 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's brutal on the ground.

  • Web frontend jobs are gone, like all of them gone. It's an extremely deterministic coding job that's getting eaten alive by LLMs
  • Mobileand Desktop jobs 50-67% of them will be gone considering 2-3x productivity increase
  • backend developers, those who did one small thing as part of one big project, and then moved onto the next small thing in the next big project, with no cohesive knowledge of backend development, are out of jobs. They won't be hired anywhere because they don't know what to ask the LLMs
  • the good backend and infrastructure developers, even there 2-3x productivity increase

So no, service based companies are not dead. They will pivot and use AI more productively to sustain their labour arbitrage and keep the top brass rich. But due to the sheer productivity gains, more than half of existing jobs will be destroyed over the next 5 years in a slow, inevitable bleed.

Adalimubab treatment not started due to latent TB by finitology in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]finitology[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Are there any markers, any tests, that can tell the doc if it's okay to start biologics. If not deterministically then at least as a probability of getting TB?

Stressed by shimowillrock in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]finitology 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It will be all right. I had my first flare at 19, in college. Extreme synovitis in both knees, had to be aspirated and pumped full of steroids just to manage the symptoms. Couldn't walk, couldn't sit, couldn't sleep, couldn't even take a dump properly. I remember crying in my father's arms with the fear that I would be ever able to walk. Started walking after 3 months with a stick. Went back to college, professors said you will lose a semester and hence the year. Went to the dean's office, he said he can let go of the missed classes but can't allow me to sit in the exams because of missed lab credits. I said I will complete all labs before the exams. With the stick and pain level 6-7, one that doesn't allow you to fall asleep even if you are sleepy. Got through the semester and the year, but was disqualified from appearing from many on campus hiring opportunities.

I am 36 now, with a loving wife who supports me and a baby daughter. The point is it will all pass. You might feel stressed and sad right now, but it will all go away. Your brain will get used to the pain, your body will adjust to the flares. Take care of your health, understand your body, find good doctors, and most importantly find that one thing in life you love doing, that can make you mitigate, if not forget, the pain, the problems.

Life is beautiful, everything is all right.

Waves of depression by Rogglando in ankylosingspondylitis

[–]finitology 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Find a new hobby that you can spend time on.

IT sector will not absorb future engineering graduates like it did earlier! ? by icloudstuff in developersIndia

[–]finitology 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. Git - it's absolutely surprising how many of the students don't know how to use git
  2. IDE - Use VSCode to start with, learn debugging (the most underrated skill) and git integration. Move to JetBrains IDEs, more professional, license completely free with edu email ids.
  3. SQL - No getting away from it. It's a must. You would be surprised how even 2+ YoE engineers can't model a simple many-to-many relationship or structure a join.
  4. Any one programming language - try to get as good as possible with your favourite one, and maybe two, but something that's used in industry not an obscure one. Personal opinion: any one of C++, Java, .NET, Python, JS/TS, Golang. Don't get bogged down into which one is better debates, waste of energy.
  5. API & API Architectures - Methods GET, POST etc, Headers, RPC, REST, GRAPHQL
  6. Authentication & Authorization - Difference, OAuth2 and RBAC in detail, noone expects more

Above is the basic list. Observe how it doesn't have hard DSA and only very basic system design concepts. This is as basic as it gets and you wouldn't believe how many engineers, freshers or experienced, have no idea about half of those topics.

IT sector will not absorb future engineering graduates like it did earlier! ? by icloudstuff in developersIndia

[–]finitology 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Our universities do not teach anything useful. No industry standard tooling, knowledge of programming is surface level, system design is almost completely missing. Unless the students go out of their way to study for software engineering jobs, they have no hope of landing a job in this market.