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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: 0.341s | source
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Havoc ◴[12 May 25 23:47 UTC] No.43968507[source]▶
Tough reading this sort of thing. :(

I don’t quite see the link to AI though?

The CV bot hellhole yes, but not how it replaced him? Is he saying nobody is hiring php devs anymore because of cursor & co? Presumably with 20 years experience he isn’t coding simple stuff so that doesn’t seem super likely

> something has shifted in society in the last 2.5 years.

End of ZIRP. For a lot of companies, especially in the early stage world the math stopped mathing without free money

Regardless overall the message does seem directionally correct - society is going to need a solution pretty soon for people struggling to compete, AI or otherwise

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1. cellis ◴[13 May 25 03:37 UTC] No.43969470[source]▶
Not just end of ZIRP, not just Agentic AI / Vibe Coding being effective [1], but also:

"Software development is now considered a Section 174 R&D expenditure. This means it must be capitalized and amortized over 5 years (15 years for foreign software development)."

If any one of these were the case you'd have tens of thousands of previously gainfully employed swes out of work. But ALL of them became the case and pretty much in the last 3 years.

[1] - Let's just say I'm a believer