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This is what happens when planning in an economy is left up to price signals rather than actual scheduling.

You get cycles of

High commodity price -> High investment -> High production -> Low price

And the frequency of the cycle is largely based on the time it takes to go from investment to production (so 4-6 years for college graduation).

In any rational economy, the number of seats available at colleges would have been pre-proportioned based on projected future demand given the economic plan.

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Holy shit Yahoo news wtf

The whole industry is fucked. I had a job lined up before I even graduated back in 2015. Held it strong for nearly a decade and moved up to a senior dev role before the company made a huge shift and decided to split our team up, moving half of us to a new product with a completely different tech stack and workflow and 0 training. Went about as well as expected, and all of us from my old team got let go with absolutely no warning as a result. Apparently these days they're 100% focused on genAI garbage so even though it's been a few years I'm excited to check glassdoor when that bubble finally bursts.

Trying to get back into dev was a nightmare too. Absurd leetcode puzzles with no practical value, interviewers who clearly had no idea what they were talking about but had the confidence of a politician, AI bullshit everywhere, the works - all while being bombarded with news about constant layoffs at nearly every company in the industry.

I ended up taking an IT support role for half my old salary instead because I just could not be fucked to deal with the state of this industry today. It went to hell SO fast. I don't know of a single recent graduate who had a job lined up out the the door like almost my entire graduating class did, and no one I know who's been laid off or let go has gotten back into similar positions at all.

It’s kinda cute when journalists use quaint terms like “6 figures” that made sense in the 90s but are now almost meaningless. $100k today is equivalent to only $73k just ten years ago. About half in 2000 dollars. Six figures isn’t anything near wealthy anymore, especially in high COL areas.

I want to get out of this industry so fucking bad but I don’t know HOW. I do also have a music degree but that’s even less useful for $$ haha

my field (cybersecurity) is absolutely fried. i have no idea how to proceed considering the job market. thank fuck i'm not unemployed but i am afraid for my future in the industry. my only hope is quantum cybersec but i have no clue where to learn it.

Looks like they should just reskill and pursue careers in the sciences instead.

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its bad, but this also happened in the late 90s with the dotcom bust. people thought similar things because so many high salary tech jobs were laid off. it wasn't just the bubble bursting, it was capital "discovering" outsourcing could cover their technical needs at a fraction of the cost.

that was the dominant vibe when i was in school, and it soured a lot of interest in tech as a secure/stable profession at the time.

this is the nature of capital and in my opinion, the only real maneuver to mitigate it (besides insurrection) is to not put all your skill/knowledge/development points just into tech. pair it with something you have an interest in (medicine/public health, education, etc) and get a formal credential in that field. then you're not just a tech person, you're a [the other thing] with advanced technical skills who can communicate with the jargon, see the broader context, and propose solutions.

narrow, singular specialization is a risky gamble. some people absolutely make it work and bank, but i think they're the exception over time with these cyclical contractions.

Yeah it's been happening for a couple three years now. I was a a UI engineer for 12 years, got laid off after training a team of Serbians to do my job, couldn't find work for a year and a half and ended up switching career paths entirely.

Good lol the CS majors who clearly dont give af about computers and are just in it for the money are such an annoying crowd. Hope there will be fewer of them from now on.

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