State of the things with doom scrolling was already bad, add to it layoffs and replacing people with AI (just admit it, interns are struggling competing with Claude Code, Cursor and Codex)
What's coming next? Bunch of people, with lots of free time watching non-sense AI generated content?
I am genuinely curious, because I was and still excited about AI, until I saw how doom scrolling is getting worse
They are not. This is false, zirp ended, this is the problem. Not LLMs.
Interns at big tech maybe impacted less, because their systems are so complex, but when I look at job boards or talk with engineers I see they're mentioning interns less, AI assisted coding more.
Bar for the interns is higher now, why do I need 3 interns to polish the product if I can complete 70% of the job with AI and hire 1 intern to fix other parts
However, I also think ai coding is hyped way beyond its capability.
i will not comment any further
The bootcamp (actually, evening classes in coding run in cooperation with the public sector) regularly placed graduates with employers.
They’ve seen a big hit in this since AI, and companies have explicitly cited the fact that AI can complete the same tasks that these junior devs used to perform.
Wasn't this always the outcome of the post labor economy?
For this discussion lets just say that AI+Robots could replace most human labor and thinking. What do people do? Entertainment is going to be the number one time consumer.