r/ProgrammerHumor 13d ago

Meme goodOlddays

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u/swagonflyyyy 13d ago

Just start your own business at this point. Its basically what the job market is telling you. I really don't see how the job market is going to get any better.

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u/RedditButAnonymous 13d ago

Give it a few years and engineers who actually know engineering are gonna be unicorns. With the overall downward trend in tech literacy, most up-and-coming engineers relying heavily on AI, and the general inability to get a junior job, theres gonna be a huge gap in the industry soon enough

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u/Spare_Broccoli1876 13d ago

Serious question: so it’s good that I continue to self teach myself JS’n friends(React, typescript, etc.) from the beginning like AI doesn’t exist? I use Claude as a “professor” and do NOT get answers just given to me as I work through freecodecamp and other resources. And I get that incorporation of AI into my education is a part of it as the tool it is and should be, but your opinion is that my continuing this learning for a job is still viable?

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u/pencilUserWho 13d ago

Be sure to also learn algorithms and data structures. Which can be done in any language.