Can anyone convince me this is truly an effect of AI, and not just pullback from the mass hiring during and following ZIRP in 2021-23ish? I understand either cause makes it a bad time to be a junior, but would like to hear the argument _against_ "AI is taking our jobs".
(I suspect some very junior jobs have genuinely been taken by AI, but it seems to me that the driving factor is still a return-to-mean after ZIRP).
missedthecue•10m ago
If it were 2018, I personally would have made 3 SWE hires in the last 12 months. The reason I didn't need to is because of LLMs. Not budget, not anything else. I don't think AI is so much to blame for layoffs, but I do think it is a huge component of the slow hiring. There's just less demand for coders.
coolThingsFirst•3m ago
No tech is dead, 2015 i got endless interviews with a barely functional chrome extension. Today your expected to know everything.
jmugan•14m ago
Maybe they are just calling the jobs by different names? It seems like names of roles are constantly shifting. "Data scientist" is a term that is going out of fashion.
kulahan•12m ago
Pretty large claim to insinuate Indeed can't even tell when their own users are simply shifting terms around...
This is the company so large, their jobs data was used in lieu of the Fed's jobs data when the gov was shut down.
impure•10m ago
I’ve actually seen an increase in recruiter emails in Toronto. Not sure if it’s just me though.
dan-robertson•8m ago
Is Indeed seeing much of the tech job market? I never considered looking for a job there over LinkedIn.
rogerrogerr•47m ago
(I suspect some very junior jobs have genuinely been taken by AI, but it seems to me that the driving factor is still a return-to-mean after ZIRP).
missedthecue•10m ago
coolThingsFirst•3m ago