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The great displacement is already well underway?

(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
511 points JSLegendDev | 1 comments | 12 May 25 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.22s | source
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YeGoblynQueenne ◴[12 May 25 21:02 UTC] No.43967428[source]▶
I don't think the author's troubles have anything to do with AI, other than making it harder to get an interview. He seems to get a few of those. I think the real problem he has is... well, the meaning of life, i.e. 42.

He's a 42 year old dude. Looking for a job in software? You gotta be joking. He says he can't clear the 25-year old Steve-Jobs complex SV bro mini-boss. Well, duh.

That's the industry. It sucks you up and it spits you out. It vampires the best years of your life and then you're on your own.

Sorry that the author had to find out, but I think I've seen that coming from the day I was first employed as a junior engineer. I just averaged up the ages of my colleagues and it was blindingly obvious how things turn out in the long run.

Nor "AI" as in "Artificial Intelligence", but "AI" as in "Ageist Industry".

P.S. Look on the bright side: at least you're not a 42 year old woman looking for software jobs. Hah.

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1. d0liver ◴[13 May 25 00:34 UTC] No.43968729[source]▶
If you look at the increase in total market cap of tech businesses over the last thirty years, it makes a lot of sense that there just wouldn't have been nearly as many people starting their careers in tech thirty years ago as there are today. Also, people tend to go into management as they age because managers are generally better paid (for whatever reason). When people decide to not go into management they often stay on the projects that they helped to build, so you have whole teams of older engineers. I saw this when I worked at AT&T - almost everyone was older.