The use of AI by non-developers to produce code will greatly increase the hourly rate I can charge.
The number of security holes produced is absolutely fabolous.
this post was submitted on 13 Jun 2025
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Back when I practiced law, I thought the same thing about services like LegalZoom. Thing is, laypeople are terrible at evaluating risk in a professional way. All they see are prices and marketing. Nobody cares about cybersecurity until they get ransomwared AND have a financial motive for preventing it. And most attacked companies now just shrug and hand out a year of credit monitoring from a company no one's heard of.
Yeah that doesn't fly in the EU.
https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/cyber-resilience-act
That act doesn't seem to do anything to avoid the shrugging and free year of credit monitoring we get in the US. Until companies are liable for lost data, I don't see that changing. I bet it'd change in a heartbeat if monetary loss from identity theft could claimed against any company that lost your data in the last year. Individuals wouldn't even have to do it, banks would automate that and HOUND those companies for payouts since they're the ones that take the biggest hits.
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I'm fairly sure the "learn to code" thing was just a media campaign by corporations to assure an abundance of programmers, leading to decreased labor rates. Years earlier it was a push for electronic engineers and technicians.
As soon as I graduated, 'too many people are fighting for IT jobs, depressing salaries, meanwhile we're paying plumbers $100/hour.'
That was 2001. Almost 25 years later, I recently paid a plumber $300/hour.
The plumber wasn't making that much though. That $300/hr includes a lot of buisness costs - someone needs to pay for the fancy van they drive in, the office workers (which is often private equity backed and has a lot of office staff and CEO that you don't care about), advertising, and whatever other costs. Plus the plumber often only has 20 minutes of work in your house, but between jobs taking an unknown amount of time, and drive time to the next job they need to charge for a lot of time that they are not working.
You paid the plumbing company $300/hour. The plumber would be lucky to make $30 of that.
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Nah, it's just changed from
Learn to code
to
Learn to AI prompt engineer, bro!
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Yeah sorry that's my fault. I literally started to learn to code 2 months before all the articles started... Then all the YouTube videos were "no one will ever hire JR devs again!" and so I stopped. Since I've stopped it looks like the consensus has gone back to "learning to code is still a good idea."
I'll let other people enjoy a good life, so I won't try to learn it again and ruin it for everyone I'll stay in this shit factory lol
It is, it was and it will be a good idea. If you like coding, learn it.
I have a great deal of job security by not being a software engineer and knowing "how to code"
they love me at my job in supply chain b2b marketing because I can build an API connector to the DoT database, and build a simple savings calculator in WordPress that connects to hubspot and Salesforce, or I can parse 20 csvs and exclude all duplicates in python...
all low level stuff but if you don't know what a variable even is it seems like magic
It might be a little unintuitive, but that's actually called "high level" - "low level" is the exact opposite.
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I think there's a massive oversupply of software engineers world-wide, and investors and executives are heavily pushing offshoring to countries where there are even more engineers that are even more desperate to find work. The ideology or focus of the entire US investor/executive class seems to have shifted as soon as Musk gutted Twitter. I fear this may be another, "these jobs aren't coming back," kind of thing the manufacturing industry went through. Perhaps we'll see a boom of bootstrapped start-ups ran by engineers (or preferably worker-cooperatives), but that's extremely hard to do.