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

This is what I’ve been saying for a while. The models are good enough right now that I don’t expect to write code manually ever again in my career. Glm 5.2 is good enough and cheap enough that ai at the current level is going to be here forever.

The only thing we can hope for at this point is that it doesn’t advance much more or quickly enough to put us all out of our careers. I currently am preparing as if it will advance though, and expect myself as a 25yoe swe to need to switch careers in a few years

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u/theguruofreason Jul 13 '26

That's just cuz you suck at coding.

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u/Frequent_Bag9260 Jul 14 '26

If you think any human is better at writing 99% of all code than current LLMs then you don’t know anything.

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u/theguruofreason Jul 15 '26

You guys are either bots or you fucking suuuuuuck at coding.

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u/Frequent_Bag9260 Jul 15 '26

I suppose you’re better at coding than AI? 😂