Advice for Software Engineers Losing Jobs to AI

[Sirthinksalot]

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.

www.yahoo.com

Maybe he can

Spoiler

Learn to mine for coal

 

[FastLane]

He could learn to pick strawberries

 

[T. A. Gardner]

He could learn to pick strawberries

Oh come on! He's more than capable of learning how to...

 

[gmark77]

Lutnick promised us all jobs screwing in tiny screws on iPhones (and then later promoted us all to "robot engineers" because everyone knows it takes about 1500 people/each robot to make the whole thing economical).

I DEMAND my robot engineer job, or failing that, to be able to screw tiny screws into iPhones all day every day.

 

[zymurgy]

I imagine it will eventually happen, but AI right now is not at the point of replacing a software engineer. Even junior developers catch glaring mistakes in the output.

 

[serendipity]

Lutnick promised us all jobs screwing in tiny screws on iPhones (and then later promoted us all to "robot engineers" because everyone knows it takes about 1500 people/each robot to make the whole thing economical).

I DEMAND my robot engineer job, or failing that, to be able to screw tiny screws into iPhones all day every day.

You've a few screws loose, you should get someone to deal with them.

 

[Bai Lan]

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

Software engineer lost his $150K-a-year job to AI—he’s been rejected from 800 jobs and forced to DoorDash and live in a trailer to make ends meet

AI obsolescence is “coming for basically everyone in due time,” says one engineer who went from earning $150k to being locked out of the workforce for over a year.

www.yahoo.com

Maybe he can

Spoiler

Learn to mine for coal

learn to code...woops i mean...well... go fuck yourself I guess.

 

[Bai Lan]

AI IS AWESOME!

FUCK HUMANS AMIRITE?!