alt Hacker NewsMy advice for juniors is that it's too late to get entry level jobs for software engineering, but AI Automation engineering is just starting. Get a Claude code sub and build whatever you can imagine and focus on improving your own coding agent. Automate one more thing every day.
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GeoAtreides • yesterday at 11:39 PM
>improving your own coding agent
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write a thousand md files with detailed prompts (and called them skills)?
is that what would get juniors hired? and paid real money? a stack of md files?
Software eng has always been automating repetitive decision making and processes. Code is just a series of steps computers/systems follow deterministically. Now we are automating the automation.
I don't necessarily disagree with your advice, but goodness, I don't look forward to using any of the low quality software in the next decade. I hope the shareholders remain happy.