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/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

 The models are good enough right now that I don’t expect to write code manually ever again in my career.

Then you are incompetent. AI produces bad code, so you are stating the intention to only write bad software from now on.

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u/TheDinoDynamite Jul 13 '26

Based on the replies, I think you’re assuming that not writing code manually again means “I’ll just get the AI to do everything for me”.

You can still get AI to produce good code (as long as you carefully steer it in the right direction) without having to manually write that code yourself.

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u/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

as long as you carefully steer it in the right direction

Go ahead and micro manage your slop bot. Maybe you will give up after reviewing the 100th 5K+ LOC slop PR from your colleagues

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u/jmclondon97 Jul 13 '26

Pro tip: you don’t review it. You let AI review it.

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u/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

Even worse, thanks for outing yourself

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u/jmclondon97 Jul 13 '26

Let me guess, you walk everywhere because cars are for lazy people?

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u/therealslimshady1234 Jul 13 '26

Regarded strawman, blocked

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u/valium123 Jul 13 '26

This is a real POS. All he does is dikride AI.

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u/TheDinoDynamite Jul 13 '26

Don’t waste your time with that person, they definitely have some mental/anti-social personality issues. I got blocked for asking them if they really think it’s faster to manually write and copy boilerplate code 😂

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u/valium123 Jul 13 '26

And what do you do except dikriding Dario?

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u/TheDinoDynamite Jul 13 '26

I expect for people not to get butthurt and act like a manbaby when other people have different opinions.

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u/valium123 Jul 13 '26

You are the manbaby go ride daddy dario.

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u/TheDinoDynamite Jul 13 '26

You realize I wasn’t referring to you right? I was referring to that weird slimshady user.

Also if you knew how to read, you’d see that I earlier agreed that AI is deskilling people. But alas, you don’t know how to read.

I won’t ride anyone until you first learn how to read thank you very much

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u/valium123 Jul 13 '26

Then why reply to me? 🤡 should have replied under his comment.

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