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Stop the moral grandstanding. This is a legitimate observation. We're also not hiring juniors. Only seniors who can use LLMs and evaluate the outputs.
by echelon 4mo ago
Stop the moral grandstanding. This is a legitimate observation.
We're also not hiring juniors. Only seniors who can use LLMs and evaluate the outputs.
- rvz 4mo agoGlad we were never "juniors" either, nor would we ever hire them. Here is the reason: We just layoff the expensive engineers and offshore all our work to very cheap remote staff engineers (at least 2 in Mumbai), give them the Claude chatbot to do the work of 20 engineers. So now we have reduced our costs by 90%. No need for juniors at all.
- echelon 4mo agoWhat's with these attitudes? The world is changing rapidly. There's a very large chance you and nobody else here will have a software job.
- rvz 4mo agoYou are not going far enough given that the world is changing faster than you can hire seniors. So why wait? Why not go further by spinning up hundreds of Claude agents without the need to hire any engineers? You just manage them. Or even at least offshore that job to a very cheap staff engineer with more cost savings?
- matheusmoreira 4mo ago> Only seniors who can use LLMs and evaluate the outputs. I'm just a hobbyist but I've gotten pretty good at using LLMs and evaluating and refining their outputs. Think there's still space in this industry or is it hopeless?
- deadbabe 4mo agoIt’s a bad look these days IMO to say you have no real classical training but you picked up an LLM and now you think you know what you’re doing (for a job interview). In the past, people without formal training had to learn things the hard way and projects were proof enough that they understood the fundamentals, but now there is no way to reasonably distinguish between such people and a heavy LLM augmented user. In our company we will likely place more importance now on full four year CS degrees as a signaling mechanism of candidate quality. Keep it a hobby and build stuff you like.
- echelon 4mo agoWhile you should always remain grounded and know what you don't know, don't ever self-select yourself out of things. (Some things require credentials, but notwithstanding that, there are entirely new jobs and opportunities being created constantly.) While I would expect someone to know algorithms, data structures, distributed systems, and have good taste and pragmatism for both eng design and office politics, that doesn't mean you can't learn those things. You absorb them the deeper you go and the more frequently you encounter them. There are no real rules of the universe, and you're only here for an infinitesimally short time. As long as you're not hurting anyone, break the rules.