Comment by watwut
4 days ago
Software engineers still can feed their families. The notion that software engineers can not feed families is not consistent with reality.
4 days ago
Software engineers still can feed their families. The notion that software engineers can not feed families is not consistent with reality.
Sounds like you don't know any junior software engineers that got laid off.
Do you? Most of the software layoffs had to do with higher interest rates and changes to R&D tax policy. AI isn't the major factor.
The idea that a junior software engineer who can't get a software job _and also can't get any other kind of job or move somewhere cheaper to live_ to the point that they can't afford to feed their families is what's unrealistic.
It's not like the options are write software or starve. Billions of people find jobs and can feed their families without writing software.
I also don't often meet junior software engineers who actually have families to feed. Most juniors work in the industry for a few years before deciding to get married and have kids.
> move somewhere cheaper to live
Unfortunately this often means moving away from family. What are you going to say to the kid whose parents toiled to get him through college on the expectation that he would be able to take care of them? "Sorry Mom, I have to move to North Dakota to work on the oilfields"?
> can't get any other kind of job
At that point they won't be software engineers
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