Lol. Even among those less stupid, most didn’t hire junior developers for the last three years, to hedge their bets.
Well, it’s three years later, AI didn’t solve shit, and we are facing an entire missing cohort of senior developers.
We’ve seen this before - back when web frameworks “made all of us obsolete” back in 2003.-
Here’s what comes next:
Everyone who needs a senior developer gets to start bidding up the prices of the missing senior developers. Since there simply aren’t enough to go around, the “find out” phase will be punctuated.
Losing bidders get to pay 4x rates for 1/3 the output from consulting companies.
Cheers!
Source: I was made obsolete by web frameworks so hard that I entered a delusion where working with web frameworks just let us produce bigger buggier websites even faster - and where the demand for web developers skyrocketed and I made some seriously respectable money while helping train up junior developers to help address the severe shortage.
Wait, people really thought web frameworks would replace Devs? Which frameworks? 😂
People thought COBOL would let managers write code.
What.
It’s by design very verbose and “English”-like, like instead of x=y*z it would go “MULTIPLY y BY z GIVING x”, the idea was that it would read almost like natural language, so that non-tech staff could understand it.
Except that it’s not the syntax that makes programming hard, it’s the thought process, right?
Yes. COBOL can be excused because it was the first time anyone was going down that path. Everything that comes later, less so.
It’s very common. Every few years there is some no-code platform claiming no developers are needed anymore in any sector, not just web dev. Invariably these only work if you stay on the narrow path and of course the customer asks something outside of the easy path after the first demo so a lot of work by devs are needed to make of happen.
AI is just one more like that, but with hype on steroids.
This idiot even created a fake account to reply to the comments.
What does it say? Clicking that link just takes me to a login screen.
The original dev lives in Canada. He made this fake account called “Armin Lebedev living in the Netherlands” and working for a company that doesn’t exist (no result anywhere in all the search engines). He created this account to reply to other people, he has no other activity. All his replies are like:
Wes - Never take this post down. It’s hilarious how people don’t understand that this post was made on Dec 9, a whole 11 days prior to the tweet. Complete inability to read past a headline, and so confident about it too. This will go into the history books about how silly the anti-AI sentiment was.
I will just restate this fact about reality: Dec 20 comes 11 days after Dec 9.
That is indeed a screenshot. The tweet was made on Dec 20 (just like I told you). A date that happened 11 days after Dec 9.
Yes, that’s him. But did you know that Dec 9 comes before Dec 20?
He’s stalking a bit, spamming a lot, he wants to correct every reply to the post for no reason because it’s not the same person of course (/s). This magical account that was created after the post is obviously fake and the same guy.
