Microsoft is cutting Claude Code licences inside its core product teams. The reason is not strategy. It is the bill. The end of the AI coding experiment has arrived?
It’s going to be a bad time for software devs for the next two to five years imo. Not just because the business idiots think they can stop hiring junior devs but because mass layoffs mean junior devs are competing with middle and senior devs for the same positions. However there’s always going to be a need for juniors because there’s no senior devs without junior devs training to become senior.
there’s always going to be a need for juniors because there’s no senior devs without junior devs training to become senior.
Sound like development jobs will soon be like other skilled industries (trades, healthcare, social services etc).
You always see stuff about “shortage” of workers yet everyone I know is constantly out of work, working part time/casual, stringing together multiple jobs. What the employers want is people with 20 years of experience and lots of training in there. But nobody wants to hire a fresh young person for 20 years and be paying them to upskill regularly. Older people either dont want to teach/train or it can’t be integrated with their existing jobs.
Everyone wants to reap but nobody wants to sow. Employers will do anything to avoid having to invest in people because it indicates a commitment to their value that makes workers upity and demanding. Its more important that the workers feel off balance and insecure all the time.
I think the whole reason we see stuff about a “”“shortage”“” of skilled trades workers is to encourage young people to go into the skilled trades, which increases the supply and thus increases precarity and reduces wages. They tell everyone to go into plumbing because they want plumbers to be cheaper.
programmers have been thoroughly proletarianised i think. this was the goal of “learn to code” and all the hyping up of the career path as a free ticket to $$$
It’s going to be a bad time for software devs for the next two to five years imo. Not just because the business idiots think they can stop hiring junior devs but because mass layoffs mean junior devs are competing with middle and senior devs for the same positions. However there’s always going to be a need for juniors because there’s no senior devs without junior devs training to become senior.
Sound like development jobs will soon be like other skilled industries (trades, healthcare, social services etc).
You always see stuff about “shortage” of workers yet everyone I know is constantly out of work, working part time/casual, stringing together multiple jobs. What the employers want is people with 20 years of experience and lots of training in there. But nobody wants to hire a fresh young person for 20 years and be paying them to upskill regularly. Older people either dont want to teach/train or it can’t be integrated with their existing jobs.
Everyone wants to reap but nobody wants to sow. Employers will do anything to avoid having to invest in people because it indicates a commitment to their value that makes workers upity and demanding. Its more important that the workers feel off balance and insecure all the time.
I think the whole reason we see stuff about a “”“shortage”“” of skilled trades workers is to encourage young people to go into the skilled trades, which increases the supply and thus increases precarity and reduces wages. They tell everyone to go into plumbing because they want plumbers to be cheaper.
programmers have been thoroughly proletarianised i think. this was the goal of “learn to code” and all the hyping up of the career path as a free ticket to $$$
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