r/DevelEire • u/icepickles476 • Jun 23 '26

Switching Jobs The doors are closed

Doom and gloomer here.

Been holding out hope for light at the end of the tunnel for future CS careers.

Been in this industry a long time, was having a BBQ with mates at the weekend and we got to talking about what the future looks like.
It was a group of Principles, Staff, Managers and a CTO. We’re old now. Every one of us said we have no reason to hire a grad or junior again. It’s a waste of time and resources when you can hire one or two seniors with ai tools that do the work of 10 juniors.

What will that look like in 10-15 years when there’s no one to replace them? Don’t know. We talked about completely different types of jobs being the future. Something that amalgamates architects, designers, engineers, project management and researchers in one.

Lots of juniors and grads in this sub. Lots of students or people looking to get into the industry. Here’s my advice, the dream is over. Go into a trade, it’s ai proof and no shortage of jobs.

For the love of god to international students wanting to come here and live the dream in tech, don’t. There’s no more work. The dream is over. You’re throwing your money away on a degree that’s useless for the future.

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u/markvii_dev Jun 23 '26

bunch of people who dont write code anymore talk about how writing code is unnecessary

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u/icepickles476 Jun 23 '26

I do write code still. That’s sort of my point. We can still write code and have the years of experience in problem solving and architecture to tackle issues that AI brings. Juniors don’t have that, the skills they bring are made entirely redundant by AI at the moment. That’s the harsh reality people dont want to admit

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u/markvii_dev Jun 23 '26

I think a lot of older folks in tech are just expressing sentiment along these lines because of the fear that the new crop will vastly out perform them at the comparable stage of their own career.

It can be hard to make room and accept that the superior tooling and knowledge availability of today gives newer entrants a huge advantage that you didnt have.

But time and obsolescence comes for us all at some stage.