Just lost my job and it’s so depressing seeing stuff like this every single day. 400+ applications and you don’t even get a call anymore. Nothing from recruiters. When you do get an offer, its 20% lower pay than ever before, while cost of living goes up. So you have to engage in borderline indentured servitude just to eat and pay rent.
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“Stealth AI Startup”
Gotta say, couldn’t pick a less sympathetic person for the screenshot.
I think the trump HB1 visa thing has put a nail in this coffin for people in the tech industry. You have to compete with people who get paid 40% less and will be deported if they take a day off. If they made it so visas required prevailing wages and had better protections it would be less of a problem…
Not to mention programming is easily outsourced so wages heavily depend on things like relative education costs. All of which are likely to be less favorable while the country is being dismantled by an oligarch.
Yup There’s going to be a whole lot more almost people too. Because there’s no no refilling program in the USA. What are you supposed to do if you have a Masters in computer science and 5 years of experience? You can’t just go back to college for a 60K degree in nursing or become an electrician or something…
At this point I’m glad I’m a janitor and AI doesn’t mop floors…
And I feel sorry for anyone who take those “LeARn To CoDe” nutters seriously when they gave that as advice on how to leave poverty.
Not in a “Haha, I’m bette than you cause I’m blue collar” sense, but in a…
“I’m just grateful to have bread crumbs, the situation is dire, there are no easy solutions outside of revolting against our so-called masters.”
No. Education will always remain the way out of poverty. And regardless, no “AI” can replace actual programmers at present. Their code and code quality are entirely unreliable and not suitable for serious, production use. They may be sufficient for hobbyist applications, but for software that is actually getting deployed, LLM outputs vary too widely, and you will always need experienced programmers to monitor them and correct errors. Also, an AI can not come up with a coherent design principle for you, the individual modules and moving parts it spits out will invariably fail to work together at scale. Creating software is much more than just churning out code. It requires advanced reasoning and specific knowledge, and AI is not there yet, and who knows if it ever will. All companies that are firing (or not hiring) programmers over current day LLMs are going to fail.
Communism is also a way out of poverty
Weird how even in this comment section, forming a union was never mentioned
That’s banned in most states, even though banning it is illegal
To hell with any ban, workers united can never be defeated
I honestly feel sorry for you guys but holy shit, am I glad I’m not over there.
Reduce your spend!
Rent is most of my budget. What else am I supposed to do?
I think they’re in order of importance.
But only you know if you can cut or not. like, are you at the point where you need to live in your car or sleep at the office or could you just buy bulk rice and beans and keep your nice comfy bed.
And the most important part about cutting your spending, that he fails to mention, is putting those savings into an income stream like dividend stocks or a high interest savings account. Money sitting in a checking account is losing value every day.
Everything ties back into the first point, dependency on a single wage is the entire problem people are having.
What the fuck is “money sitting in a checking account”??
My checking account has about -$130 right now.
if you can overdraw your checking account I would seriously rethink … everything.
So every impoverished person lol
Pray to Luigi
Be the change you want to see!
I am an Uber driver. My day started at 5:30 am. I woke up in my car this morning about 5:00 am, bought a coffee, and got started.
My day will end in about 20 minutes when I finish my second charge of the day (renting an EV). Then I will go home and shower since I haven’t had a chance yet.
I’m $267 richer as a result of my 16 hour day. Well, less than that once you figure the price of the juice to charge the car, and my food.
This is fucking hard, but it beats the last job I had, where staff was being cut and management refused to acknowledge that we were all doing the jobs of 2-7 people depending on the day. That might have only been eight hours a day but psychologically it was torture.
There are probably efforts to organize and unionize ride share workers in your area. You should look for them and join the fight.
Hey, is there anyone else but me, watching Trump and Musk illegally feed Congressionally sanctioned and funded oversight institutions into the wood chipper without regard for any consequences whatsoever, what the time frame is before The Federal government of The United States of American brings back Human Slavery?
Human slavery never left if you read the 13th amendment.
Why is the Stealth AI Startup LinkedIn guy talking facts?
Every now and then they regurgitate truths to get the broader audience to tap in. Then they say some bullshit like the 2nd half about doing a side hustle moonlighting and saving costs.
Because this is more AI hype. You just have to read this from his target audience’s point of view. Because of AI your competitors dont even need employees anymore. Why hasnt this happened to your company? Because you didnt have the right AI suppliers and gurus.
