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Comment by Varelion | Hacker News Reader

Coding is solved, but AI companies are still hiring software engineers?

Are they really though? And if so, how much of that is due to the hyper growth in this specific space?

Meanwhile, the SWE job market across all companies seems pretty rough right now. Talk to someone looking for a job. Most companies seem to be in a holding pattern - little to no new SWE positions available.

The job market sucks for absolutely everyone right now, it's not a SWE thing. Fwiw I've had five recruiters reach out to me in the last four months and I'm not even applying places.

It's a far cry from 2021-2022 but I'm not convinced it's worse for SWEs today than it is for everyone else

That's almost every industry, because most companies realize we are an extremely unstable point in time.

So they still might do but in parallel the software engineering market in china and india is collapsing.

Source?

Lots of chatter online, i have seen a few videos on this tpic on YT.

https://www.hays-china.cn/en/press-release/content/%E4%B8%AD...

I think he's referring to contracting companies. Cheap software used to be outsourced to India, but it's now getting outsourced to AI. Companies that produce novel things are still hiring, often to manage agents and review output.

Best explanation I’ve heard is that “coding is solved but software engineering hasn’t”.

* slop engineering

Coding != software development

Is there any evidence of this?

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