I have about +2 years of experience in this field. Had a bunch of freelance experiences and I'm joining my second job next week.
I moved from my previous job partly because this blind faith in AI, "with Cursor this bug shouldn't be more than 15 minutes". I just got tired of this.
Next job is in consultancy. Don't like moving from product to consultancy, but turns out the client is on the ISP field and don't want to hear anything about AI.
This isn't what I like either. AI has it's use cases and I actually find it useful, as augmentation of my capabilities. But at least is not blind faith.
I made the career change from IT support to software. I'm already 37, and I'm wondering if I took the worst timing ever. I don't like what I'm seeing around. I don't like the interviews I had till I landed this one.
I wonder if I joined the field just when its most big enshitification push arrived. Salaries lowering, completely broken interview process, burned out seniors left and right, no pipeline to us newcomers, etc.
Not sure if this is the place I want to be at 37, but at least I have the life experience to navigate this with a bit of philosophy, because the youngsters I've known along the way are really scared.
spaniard89277•2mo ago
I moved from my previous job partly because this blind faith in AI, "with Cursor this bug shouldn't be more than 15 minutes". I just got tired of this.
Next job is in consultancy. Don't like moving from product to consultancy, but turns out the client is on the ISP field and don't want to hear anything about AI.
This isn't what I like either. AI has it's use cases and I actually find it useful, as augmentation of my capabilities. But at least is not blind faith.
I made the career change from IT support to software. I'm already 37, and I'm wondering if I took the worst timing ever. I don't like what I'm seeing around. I don't like the interviews I had till I landed this one.
I wonder if I joined the field just when its most big enshitification push arrived. Salaries lowering, completely broken interview process, burned out seniors left and right, no pipeline to us newcomers, etc.
Not sure if this is the place I want to be at 37, but at least I have the life experience to navigate this with a bit of philosophy, because the youngsters I've known along the way are really scared.