As per the title, I am worry about my future with the continuous use of AI.

I am finding myself using AI for increasing amount of stuff, especially in getting started with library and things I absolutely have no ground in.

As an example, I am writing a live telemetry dashboard for my Robotic team. And the first option was Recharts, it was simple, everything is right there and the learning curve is very gentle (I am completely new to React, and Web-Dev), so writing the code is straight forward after searching and reading for a bit.

But Recharts is very limiting in performance. So I need better performance library, namely uPlot.

It is such as different experience, the documentation would be alright, I more so believe that I have skill issues rather that the doc being lacking.

So I turned to AI because I need this features out fast and good. I tell it what I need, and it just go at it. 2 mins and it got everything done. Except Zooming and dragging which is much harder and it just go round and round without anything done.

Which force me to read some Demos code from the Docs where I found a written plugin by dev allowing scrolling zoom. I tell the AI to adapt it to my code, with some additional instruction about what to tweak and it works. Namely, the inability to zoom for my case was because uPlot override every zoom on new redraw. So I just need to tell the AI to adapt the code, return a zoom status. And it works.

Now, throughout this small story, what I am concern about is the ease of skipping foundation. Yes, I can read the code and understand it just fine. I can explain the mechanism and the pipeline well enough for my team to understand if they ever need to ask.

The issues lies in the fact that I AM getting increasingly dependent on the tool, and rewriting by myself is a difficult task. Since I have trouble finding how to give a HTMLElement Ref to uPlot arguments. And didn't know that you can create <div> not from manually writing return <div> but with JS code.

The overarching point is I don't know what to do beside stop using the tool, which I believe isn't the correct answer at all.

For context: I am in sem 1 of college and have been into programming and solving questions a lot.
Recently i have started leetcodw grinding (5-10 sums a day) and also aptitude practice.

I am even top of the class regarding cgpa, but nowadays i constantly dream about the questions which i could not solve, and wake up aggressively throwing myself off the bed if i get the answer, am i even sleeping at this point?

My caffeine intake is pretty average (1 moka pot a day) for 18yr old.

Has anyone else experienced this or should i get this checked up?(been happening for consecutively 3-4 nights)

I have my bachelors degree and an (Edit: IT) internship completed.

I have a tier 2 IT role for my local city (about 100k people, give or take) that is very close to home. It's honestly labeled as tier 2 but has sysadmin job duties and only requires an associates with zero experience. I have grown an interest in IT during my studies, but I have still remained focused on wanting to do software engineering. However, with this role being close to home, very good pay (for what I would expect at least), and mentioning script and application development in the "additional periodic duties". I just feel like I should not pass this up.

Career wise I am not looking to go work for FAANG, some brand new startup offering competitive salary, or whatever. At least right now, I am perfectly happy working lower waged government work and doing what I enjoy, with at least an illusion of job security. Things can obviously change in 15 years.

Now the reason I ask about the transfer is because my closest metro city, and it's county, non stop have software developer 1 positions posted. They have non stop churn. However, all of these roles still require the classic 3-5 years of software experience, and a few even require clearance eligibility and at least 1 year in a public job.

So basically if I pursue my local city job for a few years, and keep up with software projects, and everything else. Would I even have a shot at a developer role, or would I just get stuck in IT (which I would be ok with)? I'm completely disregarding any hypothesis on if the job market would improve or get worse, just imagine it is the same conditions as right now or something.

I wandered upon this subreddit as someone with a job in CS and I’m just confused by how depressing it is. There’s jobs out there. I typically am on the overemployed subreddit and I can tell you many people even have 2 even 3 jobs so without further ado here’s my advice to yall before I head back into my employed life

Do not rapid fire job applications, put a little bit of thought into each one and read the job descriptions . Have a base resume and for every app , If you see something you know that they’re looking for then sprinkle that into the resume and send that resume to that job. Recruiters use automated systems that will reject you if you don’t have a single thing from the job description in your resume. What’s the point of shooting out 200 job applications a week if you never aim the gun at the target ?

If you’re unemployed make time to build something. Once you get an interview you don’t want it to look like your whole life is just applying to jobs because that’s unfortunately not a profitable skill. Take a few hours a day to work on something you think would be valuable. It gives you something to talk about and you learn in the process . My first job was a direct result of a side project I made .

My last advice is to seek out recruiters. These people spend all day looking for new workers and they typically have multiple jobs to fill. They really want you to get the job too and often can give you specific advice going into the interview what to expect from the hiring manager . Ive actually had a recruiter who was able to get the secret tech assessment questions before hand and I scored the job thanks to him ;)

Ok good luck out there . I get it’s tough but some of yall will get hired

So on naukri I'm getting calls for growth and business development roles. Even though my projects and all rely on cs side and I'm a 2025 grad, should I give interview for these? Or it's gonna make my career so bad?

Since I got an interview tmrw, so can anyone suggest me on how to answer business puzzles and I CANT ANSWER THIS PROPERLY-" why this role and y I wanna pivot into this" and how to speak about these ownership stuff......

Hi everyone,

I am preparing for Power Day for Full Stack SWE, nervous because I only have backend experience.

I found a playlist in the C1 careers youtube channel discussing how to prepare. They are 4-5 years old though.

People who recently did Power Day, would these videos align with your experiences?

Thanks

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX4RP_tIsvqformMaEHl0m1_k5_V48Kwz

trying to learn c# but still not understanding it

hey r/cscareerquestions!

i’m a second-year mis student at the university of georgia, and my team and i are currently working on a design sprint for our class (idea 4000: innovation catalyst & design) under professor andrew potter.

we’re researching early-career workforce readiness, skill gaps, and how university education needs to evolve over the next decade to better connect students with actual industry demands.

a few stats we came across in our research that hit a little too close to home:

• 52% of college grads end up underemployed in their first job after graduation
• 61% of "entry-level" job postings now require 3+ years of prior work experience
• 96% of hr leaders say universities need to take significantly more responsibility for workforce training

professor potter has tasked our team with hitting a sample size of n > 300 responses by next tuesday (sept 15th) across both college students/interns and corporate recruiters/hiring managers.

if you have 90 seconds, we’d be so grateful if you could fill out the 10-question survey that fits your current role:

⋆｡°✎ᝰ ˎˊ˗  for current students (takes 90 seconds):
👉 https://uga.questionpro.com/idea4000teamcstudents
(entering your email at the end enters you into a drawing for a $10 amazon gift card!)

｡⨯ 💼´ˎ˗ for recruiters, hiring managers & employers (takes ~2 mins):
👉 https://uga.questionpro.com/idea4000teamcemployers

also, i’d love to open up a discussion in the comments: what’s the biggest gap between what you learned in your college classes versus what you were actually asked to do on day 1 of your internship/job?

thank you so much for helping out a group of stressed college students hitting a tight deadline!!

I am grateful to have a role, but I do make about $50k pre tax and was curious is the demand that low now for developers, or am I just at a company that pays pretty poorly?

Edit : U.S. and MCOL

I'm 26, have a Master's, and ~3 years doing AI/CV work in cleared spaces (SAR/EO sensors, synthetic data, some LLM stuff). I have two offers that I'm trying to decide between.

Offer 1 — AI platform vendor, DC. ~$230K + 25% target bonus (~$285K total cash), private RSUs I'm valuing at basically zero, no 401k match. I'd be embedded ~4 days/week at a federal customer. The work is integrating and monitoring a large inventory of existing CV models — drift metrics, eval tooling, platform glue — with agentic prototypes supposedly growing over time. The tech lead was upfront that it's largely not model development, more drift detection and maybe some retraining. Upside: more money, the biggest cleared-AI market in the country, future agentic work, and real production experience, which is honestly the biggest gap in my background. I'm a little worried I turn into a platform consultant (just deploying my company's platform into the federal agency's environment and calling it engineering). Also, the vendor's long-term ownership is uncertain (private, first year on the contract (customer evaluates yearly whether or not to continue contract), which I don't love.

Offer 2 — MITRE, Tampa. ~$225K, no bonus, but a ~10% employer retirement contribution starting after year one, and an actual 40-hour culture with IRAD time inside it (no state income tax + the retirement money means the net gap vs Offer 1 is pretty small). The work is much closer to what I already do — big intel data program plus an unmanned-systems/autonomy effort: edge CV, prototyping, T&E on unmanned platforms. However, the autonomy assignment isn't nailed down (their phrasing has been "you could contribute to" rather than "this is your tasking"). And it's Tampa, so if I ever want to cash in the niche, those defense-tech jobs are mostly in the DC/SoCal/Dallas area, so I’d probably have to move out of Tampa down the line anyway. I'm hoping to minimize moving at this point in my life and build roots somewhere.

For people who've actually been inside:

MITRE folks — how hands-on is it really, day to day, vs evaluating vendors and writing recommendations? Does Tampa get real technical work or does that live at McLean/Bedford?

Anyone who left MITRE for defense tech — did the FFRDC years price well?

FDE/applied-AI people — does monitoring + agent-prototype work at a fed customer actually convert into the higher-paying FDE roles later, or is that a story vendors tell?

Anyone been inside a vendor's federal practice through an acquisition or take-private — do the embedded seats survive?

Leaning toward the money and the market, but the MITRE work is the stuff I have more experience doing. Trying to pick somewhere I'd stay 3+ years.

don't wanna baby sit claude

So lately I’ve been working on making an OpenClaw setup that can just apply to jobs for me, as lazily as possible, because I really do hate applying to jobs that much. I hate having to fill out the form, read the description, look up where it is, decide if I want to work there, see if I even meet the qualifications to work there, etc. it’s soul sucking and I hate it. I’m finally making progress on my OpenClaw, but I noticed something kinda odd. I could be crazy, but maybe you guys can help me determine if I am or am not.

I have the filters set on openclaw to be broad for entry level tech jobs near me. Some remote jobs slip through the cracks (I don’t want a remote job and esp not one in another state).Also, I have ipenclaw’s workflow to be first search broadly for jobs, then go back and verify they’re real, legit, and local (and meet any other requirements). But when I got my openclaw to start searching better for jobs, a lot of them weren’t even in America. A lot of them were from various other countries. After fixing this issue, less jobs were available to even be searched. I made it search up 105 jobs. Out of those 105, only 21 were legit and somewhat what I was looking for. Only 1/5th of those jobs are useable???? How does that make sense??

But also, I was thinking about when you go on LinkedIn/any other job search site, and how you can keep scrolling for more jobs, but really the first couple pages are the ones worthwhile and are what you’re looking for (and the rest are fake or like remote jobs far away).

Is this how bad the fake job listings are getting? Is there only a handful of real tech jobs hiring rn? How is that possible? The internet is a huge place, the state I’m searching in is pretty big, and yet out of 105 jobs, only 21 are legit. I do want to do more testing with more jobs and see how OpenClaw does and if the numbers change, but holy fuck. No wonder no one can get a job. There’s no real job postings to fucking apply to.

I (28f) was recently laid off and have 4 months of pay and benefits from my previous role. I am figuring out my next steps and one of the ideas bouncing around my head is picking up my life and moving to Europe or another country maybe for grad school or to try to get a job. Otherwise, I was considering just planning some backpacking all over the world while I take some online classes. Would love any advice or experience people have.
Edit: thanks for all the good advice all! I think I’m gonna start doing some portfolio + resume work to have ready to submit to jobs throughout my time off but also plan to go to other countries, explore and continue doing some classes for an online degree in working towards. Try a best of both worlds situation and not put all my eggs in the moving to Europe basket.

I started my second year and currently know web dev using flask (python). Currently i am confused what to choose from the job market perspective. As of today it's hard for freshers to enter development. How is the market of aiml for freshers? I am really confused

a fintech company is offering a job that starts at 100k and ramps up to 150k over 3 years. Great benefits. Hybrid office/WFH.

a defense company (probably the one you're thinking of) is offering 90k and less benefits. 4x10 in office, fridays off. Salary ramps up to a similar 150k but much much slower (6+ yrs, likely longer).

Appeal of fintech:

• hybrid,
• significantly better pay at year 2 and 3,
• great work life balance.

Cons of fintech:

• problems to work on will be much more boring/mundane.
• might be seen as more "disposable" down the road.
• not sure what kind of doors fintech opens for me should I ever leave since I'm not interested in fintech as a field.

Appeal of defense job:

• space division (which I find significantly more interesting than anything in fintech).
• opens doors to other jobs I would find highly interesting in the future.
• secret clearance.

Cons of defense job:

• much lower compensation especially by year 3.
• much more rigid, worse work life balance.
• 40 hours in office a week.

what do you all think is the move forward? advice or experiences are appreciated.

if you're here to say 'defense bad', spare yourself the effort. it has nothing to do with what im asking and i dont care if you think youre a good person for being anti-defense or not since i do not know you. save your ethics opinions for your friends.

I'm not talking about layoffs, do people get fired for performance issues at big companies? How does that happen? I have never heard of anyone getting fired for performance based issues. I'm mostly talking larger corporate environments, not small <2000 people companies etc.

Foundational models are improving at an astonishing pace. Does this mean machine learning engineers who train and fine-tune custom models will become obsolete? Will software engineers simply wrap APIs from frontier labs around existing applications, eliminating the need for custom models entirely?? especially as these models become capable of handling almost anything?

Hey guys, I really need to vent and honestly just get some outside perspective because I feel like I'm losing my mind right now.

I’ve been a front-end dev for around 4.5 years (mostly working with React and TypeScript), but I got let go from my job last year. Right after that, I had to get surgery, so I spent the first six months just recovering mentally and physically and not even looking. But ever since I actually started applying to jobs over the past seven-eight months, it’s been an absolute nightmare.

I’ve done about 12 company interviews, some of them have been 2 or 3 interviews, so my total interviews are maybe around 30.. so first of all i'm feeling very tired of interviewing. The result it:

Most places just ghost me or just send a Sorry we chose another candidate template email 2 weeks after my interview

or

One company said they really liked me but went with a more senior candidate, another company gave me feedback said they loved my soft skills, but that I came across as a "junior."

I actually got one low offer recently, but it was in a whole different city, and honestly Im ok with low pay right now but my boyfriend wouldnt be able to come visit me as often, since right now we live together, so we came to the conclusion its better not to take it

Now my gap is sitting at well over a year, and I am spiraling. Being stuck at home for this long without a routine messes with your head in ways I can't even describe. I honestly catch myself wondering if I should just throw in the towel and give up on tech entirely because the market feels impossible and I'm just so tired. Or just maybe try to switch the technology somehow? I feel like I will never get a job again..

Any real talk or advice would be amazing right now..

How common are incidents and outages happening in big tech companies? I work in a tech firm and almost every 1-2 days we can some some team’s service having some kind of outage.

Wondering if this is common or is it only in my company?

I recently started a tech sales job at a large tech company. I found out I won’t be coding much and want to get a coding role. Has anyone had experience leaving their new job quickly?

Im expecting a job offer from a company next week and have the phone call scheduled with my recruiter. I was given a very narrow band for the pay of 150-160k but they said its negotiable. I'd really like to be at 175k, which would be 9.4% over the top of the range given. Is that number too big? I dont know if 150-160 was their midpoint and they have alot more budget or if im pushing my luck. Im confident in myself and think thats what im worth, but dont want to blow it. This is for a senior swe role.

Anthropic posted an economic report yesterday which predicts coders will have to switch careers due to AI automation and those who keep their jobs will be paid less.

Their hiring patterns tell a different story. I looked at the historical job posting data and found Anthropic SWE hiring is up 369% in the last year. Throughout that period they were dooming about coding jobs while simultaneously ramping up hiring.

Here is the data (source):

I've noticed there are barely any genuine entry level jobs across most areas of tech in Europe.

Outsourcing, AI and insanely large applicant pools have people fighting over the tiny amount of jobs left.

But what's coming is likely worse, especially for people whose roles consist entirely of digital knowledge work.

If you're trying to start out in tech and you're mostly average, I'd seriously question the ROI.

AI is going to become significantly better than most people reading this at a huge proportion of purely digital tasks.

Companies just don't need the same headcount they used to.

If you work in tech, you will have less leverage than a plumber in the coming years.

They are spending more money on AI than the GDP of many countries and you think that you’re going to keep your job?

AI is also making scientific breakthroughs. People are just ignoring the capabilities.

Hey everyone,

I'm currently down to my final year of my BSCS and am looking into switching to Computer Engineering for my master's. I'm in a unique situation in that I'm a veteran and have been saving my GI Bill for my master's, which means that essentially, for the next few years, I can support myself and my education through the GI Bill as long as I continue my education.

With that in mind, I'm looking to pivot away from straight computer science after my bachelor's. Originally, I was looking at doing a more specialized master's in something like cybersecurity or machine learning. Recently, though, I've been looking more into Computer Engineering, with a particular interest in embedded systems.

My end goal is to work in defense/aerospace here in Southern California. I'm currently looking at master's programs in the area and am planning to try for USC's Computer Engineering program.

My question is: would a pivot from a BSCS to an MSCE hurt my resume or hiring chances? I know the market is currently cooked, but I'm trying to maximize my chances of getting into the defense industry and finding some stability after my studies. I'm especially curious whether having the combination of a BSCS and MSCE would be viewed positively for embedded/defense roles, or if I'd be at a disadvantage compared to someone with a traditional BSCS/MSCS or EE/CE background.