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Im a tech guy. In the last week, I have received 4 cold calls about new positions and a couple more emails. This month ive seen more anecdotal hiring going on in my friend group. Is there something going on? I'm not looking, haven't updated my linkedin in years etc...etc...

For the past year, hiring in software development has been dismal and all of a sudden im seeing a huge spike.

Anyone else seeing this or am I just cherry picking?

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[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 5 days ago (2 children)

My area has bitten the bullet and is finally hiring new entry level programmers and teaching them. It's like for the last 15 years they were just hoping skilled programmers would get cheaper

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Does it count to teach them ai? I’ve had this guy in India, working for me on and off for a couple years now. He’s really bright and was coming along nicely … then ai hit

His first like 6 months of ai use were horrible. Absolute junk that harmed the code more than made progress. My code reviews were brutal.

But he figured it out. He’s a heavy ai coder but it works. My code reviews rarely find issues anymore. It’s too early to know about maintainability, but his code looks good to me

[–] psud@aussie.zone 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

No, we're not allowed to use AI for any design documents or code

Give it a while though and I'm sure that'll change

People are begging for LLM use in analysis, design, build, and test

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago

Yeah, I do worry about that too. LLMs are good about putting together a professional looking document but they also tend to be verbose and with vague wording. I’m on a project now suffering because the design was really not reviewable. Now we’re trying to work on it and it’s really obvious the design was all bs

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They actually expected gen-z would just pick up coding naturally because they grew up with smartphones. Peak boomer logic.