• Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1 hour

    The plan was always to over saturate the market with coders so the big techs could lower their wages.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    What’s the word from “billionaires are job creators” people? Oh, yeah. Their the ones laying everyone off in order to use “AI”.

  • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    3 hours

    “Go do what we told a billion others to do! Don’t break the mold!” Yea, big shock there.

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    10 hours

    Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.

    They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.

    • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      9 hours

      A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.

      • CommanderCloon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        2 hours

        If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though

      • skibidi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4 hours

        All the big tech companies are built on open source projects… No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.

        Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.

        • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          20 minutes

          Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          4 hours

          Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    10 hours

    “The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.

    This has never ever been true for any job, especially at 21 years old.

    I mean maybe there’s a rare trade that gives you the bick bucks from the get go, but even law practice and finance takes a lot of unpaid work to finally get properly paid.

    • heh@lemmy.worldEnglish
      39 minutes

      Additionally, just “knowing how to code” has never been an actual ticket to success.

      Software engineers are hired to solve problems, not write code. If you can write code but can’t solve problems and create innovative solutions you’re no better than a monkey.

    • KaChilde@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      9 hours

      Might not have been true, but has definitely been the narrative pedalled to young people for years.

      There is always some career that kids get pushed into with a promise of “jobs in demand” and “guaranteed salary”.

  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    4 hours

    That is what the democrats told people who lost their jobs to closed coal mines and closed manufacturing plants.

      • xenomor@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2 hours

        Serving capital has been the primary organizing function of the Democratic Party for at least the last 40 years.

        • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.netEnglish
          1 hour

          Yes, both parties. But they didn’t pass any laws to ban manufacturing in US. Capitalists moved manufacturing to Asia because it was cheaper.

  • Scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.techEnglish
    15 hours

    Yeah no shit. This was the plan all along. Big tech wanted to flood the market with too much talent so they could lower pay for engineers. This was always the plan.

    They never gave two shits about women in coding, or inner city coding caml’s. They wanted mass cheap labor.

    The cherry on top is right as that labor was coming out they got a double whammy of AI too.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13 hours

    The jobs didn’t follow because “big tech” lost what was left of its collective mind and put their heads all the way up each others asses.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      4 hours

      The jobs were never going to follow either way. It was a way to make more workers so they could pay everyone less. If there’s 100 people practically begging for your job for half the pay, good luck negotiating a raise.