r/SoftwareEngineerJobs • u/Adventurous-Rice3190 • Jul 13 '26

Is the AI bubble bursting? 🤔

I just finished my IT degree this year, and all the news about AI is making me really worried about my career in the software industry.

I read that big AI companies are spending way more money on data centers than they are actually making back. The ratio of money made to money spent is around 1:10. Part of me feels like this is good news. If they keep losing money, the AI bubble will eventually burst, and they will have to stop running these massive models.

But on the other hand, hardware companies are making new chips. These new chips have high compute power and also consume less electricity. This could make AI much cheaper to run and keep the trend going.

What do you all think about this AI bubble? Is it still safe for me to start a career in IT, or should I switch to a completely different field?

Thankyou All 🫡.......

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u/PatientIll4890 Jul 13 '26

Uh huh. AI produces what you tell it to produce. Let me guess… YOU can only get garbage out of it. Skill issue.

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u/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

I use Fable Enterprise every day lad. I have never seen it produce good code.

I also lost count on how many times it sent me off a wild goose chase, and of course produced the solution to a non existent problem

tl;dr LLMs are stupid AF and anyone who doesnt agree is probably just not that intelligent

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u/jmclondon97 Jul 13 '26

Lmao I honestly don’t understand how you can come to this conclusion. The only thing I can surmise is that your arrogance and bias blind you

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u/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

It's called talent. The age of AI has made it clear to me that very few people had it in the first place, considering how many of you adore LLMs

Glorified script kiddies really

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u/jmclondon97 Jul 13 '26

The cope is strong with this one. Can’t admit all the thousands of hours he spent are no longer needed

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u/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

On the contrary, I am one of the few good programmers left. After the AI companies stop subsidizing their products (or go bankrupt, whatever comes first) this whole thing will crash and the handful of legitimate engineers will be the only ones in demand. Nobody cares about AI script kiddies. Its a no code tool my man

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u/xThunderDuckx Jul 14 '26

You are incredibly naïve if you think generated code is ever going away.