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Thousands of Software Engineers Say the Job Market Is Getting Much Worse::9,388 engineers polled by Motherboard and Blind said AI will lead to less hiring. Only 6% were confident they'd get another job with the same pay.

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[–] frezik@midwest.social 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Only certain legacy applications are around for 5 years.

Oh if that were true.

[–] KevonLooney@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Those are the legacy applications. This is the survivor bias 100%. You don't see all the projects that were created and then dumped after a year or two (see Google).

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago

Real laughing-crying emoji hours.

I've got a friend who got his job entirely because he's under 40 and knows Fortran.