Comment by tencentshill
6 hours ago
This is an AI slop website the same as spammed on Show HN. Doesn't matter if the author is incredibly wealthy.
6 hours ago
This is an AI slop website the same as spammed on Show HN. Doesn't matter if the author is incredibly wealthy.
Does it matter if the author is a renowned expert in the field?
Expert in AI != expert in labor markets.
All the "research" on the site comes from a single LLM prompt.
Show HN isn't about being expert.
No. You can be an expert in one field, and have no idea what you're doing in another.
> You can be an expert in one field, and have no idea what you're doing in another.
And for whatever reason a lot of people in startup/tech seem to have a huge Dunning-Kruger effect blind spot where they believe knowing a lot about one thing makes them an expert in everything.
This used to just be funny, but when it started to intersect with politics it began to actively contribute to destroying society. It isn't funny anymore.
(I don't think Karpathy's job data here is destroying society, this is a more generalized observation).
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Meanwhile my show HN didn't even get single upvote or any comment. Sigh...
Maybe you forgot AI, or blockchain or DeFi or all of these three? :-D /s
The VIEW could be AI slop, but underlying CONTENT has some meaning.
There is definitely impact on Software engineering jobs at the moment, interns/juniors are struggling to find jobs, companies are squeezing every bit of dev slack time to produce more stuff with AI.
> The VIEW could be AI slop, but underlying CONTENT has some meaning. There is definitely impact on Software engineering jobs at the moment, interns/juniors are struggling to find jobs
Is that notion supported by this content? The BLS Outlook for most software engineering jobs is most in the "much faster than average" growth range.
BLS outlook is based on historical trends and inertia, both could be true at the same time:
* Yes software engineering jobs can grow - by increasing demand for custom software thanks to coding agents unlock
* AI can impact it - by making software engineers LLM code approvers
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BLS outlook is comically bad. For example, BLS had pharmacists' outlook as amazing all throughout the 2010s, while /r/pharmacy and sdnforums had a constant stream of posts complaining about declining pay and quality of life at work, all while the pharmacy business' profit margins and number of employers declined.
What would be useful is tracking the change in minimum pay per hour from legitimate job listings, now that there are quite a few states that require posting pay ranges on job listings.