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Just what I didn't need to see this morning.

I am literally living in the streets, freezing my ass off and hungry, looking for any kind of programming work for the past month, and now I have to see some AI bot generating more inexpensive shit code that I am sure some manager will convince themselves might get them that final career promotion by lowering their labor costs to near zero.

WTG, geniuses, for developing AI that before you know will have all of us living in the streets and hungry...

I'll save you a spot.

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I see you’re proficient in a LAMP stack?

Gingrapp.com is looking for a developer. Our parent company owns many other companies as well and are always looking for developers.

My personal email is on my profile. Please feel free to reach out! I’ve helped find work for other devs down on their luck here on HN successfully.

Where do you live? There's plenty of jobs in my area and my company is also hiring. I would be happy to help you land something.

People are downvoting your crassness, but I sympathize with your situation.

I don't know what Las Vegas is like, but there is a lot of LAMP/WordPress work here in Toronto. (Frankly, I want nothing to do with it, but there's plenty of it and they pay alright. Some also offer PT or FT remote)

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The company I'm with is even hiring for such a role: https://twitter.com/scarbiedoll/status/1095714031023714305

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Best of luck

I can sympathize with your situation but I have to ask: where are your friends/family in all this? You don’t have any support system at all? I realize it’s possible but I want to understand how you ended up in your present situation.

My next comment is you are in the wrong industry if something like this scares you. You have the wrong attitude. Instead of lamenting about a new tech replacing your current skills, you should be asking yourself, how can I learn this new technology and put it to work for me?

Some people may say someone in your position has more important things to worry about and I would agree. Get yourself the first job you can find (tech related or not) and get your basic needs in order. Then invest your time in learning a tech with some staying power.

Jumping from short lived and volatile coding jobs isn’t a long term solution.

Welcome to the life of all the non-engineers out there either up to their eyeballs in debt or otherwise unable to earn a living wage. How many secretaries or data entry workers or webmasters were made obsolete because you were paid to destroy their job?

However, you don't have to worry, free open source tools and off the shelf B2B software will make your job obsolete long before AI is actually a time saver when writing code.

They're going to have to make PHP that compiles before we lose our jobs...

PHP is interpreted o.o

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