alt Hacker News90% of the job ads I see have the word "AI" in them. It can be a startup hoping for a get-rick-quick opportunity from the AI hype, or an established company.
Both types expect you to spend as many tokens as possible so that the AI bubble doesn't burst (presumably because leadership has a financial interest in this).
Your actual productivity isn't important. If you point out that you're much faster writing code on your own in 90% of cases, you will be told you're not good at AI, you're not prompting it correctly and that generally you're not AI-native and that you'll be left behind. To be precise, token usage is a performance metric, so you'll be let go if Claude is not running continuously 8 hours a day.
I'd like to know how many places have mandates to write 100% of your code using AI, as well as to max out your AI agent's plan. For some reason nobody talks about it even though I know several companies around the world that are forcing this on their employees.
If you're looking for a job then you don't have a choice, it's better to have an income. But if you're looking to change jobs to get away from AI to actually be productive and gain experience then it's a very bad job market.
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"AI" is everywhere, because it's the fashion. A lot of jobs do not require AI mastery, or even heavy use.
I'm searching for a job for many months, and I do see the uptick quite clearly.
It feels like when Java and Object-oriented programming were popular. You must use the object orientation, it is the future. Imagine not being able to reuse code, etc.
> your AI agent's plan
Token billing is coming very-very soon, there won't be a "plan".
What will these companies do then?
"AI-native" lmao, what a term
I’ve been programming for 25 years, I’d struggle to think of a scenario where I’m faster writing code manually than prompting ai to do it
[edit 25 years not 20]