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The great displacement is already well underway?

(shawnfromportland.substack.com)
512 points JSLegendDev | 1 comments | 12 May 25 14:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | 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. Barrin92 ◴[13 May 25 02:55 UTC] No.43969303[source]▶
>That's the industry.

I think this is complete nonsense to be honest. If you're 42 with 20 years of experience you can walk into any random municipal office in a reasonably large town and find a software or at least IT admin job that people will throw at you, because chances are the youngest person there is 55.

The only ageist part of the software industry is the whole web and startup sector, your average post office, hospital, government and education software job is full of middle aged people. If you're unemployed just take a job there