I've been interested in coding since I was little (I haven't been able to learn how to code for financial reasons but that's a different story). I wanted to do computer science in college for a while now but considering how over-saturated it is in the job market and the whole AI thing going on, I'm not sure about wanting to pursue it as a career anymore. I'm still interested in software and computer science but I don't know if I should actually do it. Is coding and computer science still in demand right now? Anything will be appreciated! :D

edit: why yall so mean to me :')

I guess this question has been asked here a thousand times already, but still.

There are a lot of different opinions on this topic i've witnessed, some say ai is gonna take most jobs in it, some say you just have to study twice as much now to get at least a decent job.

I've been studying programming for 3 years now, at first as a hobby, later as an option for a future vacancy. Learned to use some frameworks and dbs, guess it would be better to put a whole list: python, javascript, django, rest api, aiogram, html/css, postgresql, redis and some minor but useful libraries. Technically, it looks like i can already do some tasks like making an api for some service, caching or a basic interactive website.

But there's the main issue: when i go through the list of available vacancies – most of them require senior-level skills, or at least a year of experience. Others already have a few HUNDREDS of people who will do the job almost for free. It feels like i'm doing something i'll actually need in the future when i make a small project or study something new, but every time i look at the actual jobs and people who worked in it for a couple of years, i see the same things, ai getting better and replacing more and more programmers, the whole market being oversaturated with juniors who seek any experience, and dozens of people leaving the whole industry.

At this point i'm not even sure it's worth it. I still have a couple of years till my 18th birthday, but looking at all this stuff, it seems like becoming a welder in czechia is much more profitable🤷‍♂️

I've read a lot of similar posts, not expecting to hear anything new, but i'd like to hear your opinions on this topic.

I just got out of a meeting with my manager saying that I will be let go from Meta. I wasn't a low performer or anything, I don't spread rumors or talk behind people's backs. I come in to the office I do my work and get out that's all. I've received multilple praises in my reviews from the past and I haven't had any problems since. Last time I had a meeting with my skip and he told me that I am a good contributor to work. So what's the problem then? I don't have a single clue on why I'm being let go from this place. I was actually kinda liking it here since it was one of the highest paying companies out of the ones that I have been in.

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I'm a finance bro who started programming when chat 3 dropped. Started with scripts for work and got really into web dev from there. I am thinking about applying to some new roles where I would working as an intermediary between devs and analysts to create in house software. I have been trying to get my projects in order to add to my resume but I am now realizing I may have been a bit sloppy with git. I use git for version control but I only make a new branch when I am making huge changes to the code base. Since all of my projects have been solo, I never fill out the commit message. Also I normally code on my desktop but if I want to work on my laptop I'll commit the repo to GitHub so I can just clone it. Because of this my GH looks whack, there will be multiple weeks with no commits and then a 10k line diff out of nowhere. All of this to say, will this look bad to employers? Is there an alternative to showcasing my portfolio through GitHub? Am I using the git terms correctly (lol)??

I asked google what is one of the highest unemployment degree's to get today and it responded it said based on statistics it's Computer Science

But after that i researched and asked google again What is the best career to get now based on demand and salary. The number one answer is AI Engineers and Cybersecurity, which is weird because both of these careers are from Computer Science.

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I was always interested in learning how to code, and manually writing ur own code and create ur app the way u want it to be, but now that ai took over idk what to do, i do use ai but feel like i have 0 control over the app. So should i learn to code or would i be just wasting time and be behind everyone

When I watch videos about programming it seems like python is the simplest and requires the least amount of typing. Is there a reason why you wouldn't only use python?

I work for a big company, not in the IT industry but still has a lot of software in different divisions, last week during a workshop about AI, I got to know that developers stopped reviewing the code and there seemed to be a consensus about it.

Is this the new norm? Anyone has experience to be able to tell whether that's safe to do? At the same time I read about Shopify CEO mentioning that people are throwing "slop grenades" on each other!

I find it very humiliating when someone sent me something generated and clearly didn't make the effort to review it, and that's already not difficult to spot, is that any different in software?

I have been working as a full-time software developer for about 2 years now. I'm comfortable with the standard dev lifecycle, backend/frontend engineering, and writing clean production code. However, I want to officially pivot into the AI engineering space and want to start preparing.

Given that I already have the engineering fundamentals down, what does a realistic learning roadmap look like for someone in my position right now?

Specifically, I’m trying to figure out:

• The Math/Theory: How deep into linear algebra, calculus, and statistics do I actually need to go for an AI Engineer role (as opposed to a pure Data Scientist/ML Researcher role)?

• The Tooling: Beyond Python, what are the must-know libraries and frameworks I should focus on building projects with today (e.g., PyTorch, Hugging Face, LangChain, Ollama)?

• Portfolio Projects: What kind of portfolio projects actually impress hiring managers for AI roles? (I assume basic chatbot wrappers won't cut it anymore).

If anyone here has successfully made this switch after working in traditional software development, I’d love to hear how you structured your transition and what you wish you’d focused on sooner!

1 star. I wouldn’t recommend working here.

Priorities shifted almost every day, and each pivot created more work on top of the existing workload. It felt chaotic, with the team working seven days a week.

The hardest part was feeling like people cared about the work getting done, but not much about the people doing it.

Maybe it’s a fit if you’re fresh out of college, live next to the office, and are happy working 100-hour weeks. For everyone else, I’d think carefully before joining.

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I'm 17 and I'll begin college getting into engineering in computer science next year or computer engineering depending if I can afford to travel cities.

I used to code a little bit in python back in 2020, but I want to make a living out of this in the future so I want to specialize in a language where AI usually struggles and that's not rarely used.

I’m not very good at coding. I took a class in school but I only learnt the basics but I’m trying to program a little hobby-site because I really enjoyed it. I’ve look it up and tried to follow tutorials online but I can’t figure out why the text is so off center. The first picture is my code pertaining to the button and the second picture is the button itself.

Is there any demand for typical backend developers these days or I’m being redundant from AI? Think Java, Gradle, spring boot, enterprisey slow work…. I genuinely don’t understand why am I not able to get at least interviewed for companies who pay well.

I believed I wouldn’t have too much issues finding close to $200k remote job or fine with relocation $250k+. But I’m having a wake up call.

Just recently, someone posted here from Google to land job at Anthropic for $400k.

Can anyone advise me on what the F i should be doing? I have good amount of LC but due to error or bug, I never make it into offer stage as there is always someone who’s further in the process, or “not enough experience 0 to one”, .. it’s like these guys are looking for perfect candidates who knows all.

My cold applications don’t get much attraction. The inbound I get are from head hunter whose leads aren’t worth pursuing.

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He somehow found a way to mention he had two offers already, when I did not ask or care. Called my opening question a classic, solved it too, fast, narrating like a lecturer, pausing to say things like "there's a cuter way but I'll keep it readable for us."

When I pushed a harder follow-up he went "ooh, spicy," and cracked his knuckles. I cannot even begin to explain how much that infuriated me. Then ended the call with good luck with the rest of your candidates. I fucking hate this kid.

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I would assume its a learned skill, but recently had a conversation where I was told it's more of a way of thinking about the problem rather than particular process. What do you think? Do you agree?

Hello!

I'm not sure if this matters but I'm a single mom of 3 with little time but really wanting to get into the tech world. I love working with computer's always have but due to life circumstances I have always worked in customer service, so no tech environment. Due to not a lot of income I have tried stepping into to Freecodecamp to start learning the basics of HMTL CSS and Javascript, but I feel I am not quite taking the right path into this and I'm afraid of wasting more time(years) and just slowing my process into something I truly enjoy. I did pay a course with SheCodes, but it's basically the same thing as FreeCodeCamp just a bit more fast paced. Is there a bootcamp anyone recommends that's a bit more hands on, or anything that can help me get into the right path I would greatly appreciate it!

So I’m currently picking up programming to have as a hobby that I can make fun projects with!

A couple of the things I’ve noticed is

I enjoy understanding why I’m doing what I’m doing when it comes to programming like the nitty-gritty interest me

As well, I like being able to make something that is visual or I can see the progress as I build it up

I’ve been interested in game dev as well I took boot.dev’s course and found the idea back and web designed to be interesting, but I don’t know if it would end up fulfilling that each of kind of liking to see the results of what I’m making. I guess I’m trying to get some guidance just figuring out what language it would be best to sync my teeth in to. Or if I’m just being dumb and I just need to pick one and go with them.

Thank you guys

You ship a feature, there is already a lot of pressure for the next one. You close a ticket and three more appeared while you were closing it. The codebase is growing faster than any one person can understand it and somehow that's the goal now.

Companies saw AI write code and thought great, we need fewer engineers but what they didn't think about is that writing code was never actually the hard part. Understanding why something breaks at 2am, knowing which part of the system will hate this new feature, remembering the one decision made two years ago that everything else quietly depends on, that's the job and you can't Copilot your way out of that. You just cannot.

So now one engineer is doing what three people used to do and the AI is helping them do it faster which sounds great until you realise faster just means the pile grows faster too and the deadline doesn't move but the scope keeps expanding because hey you have AI now so what's the problem.

The problem is nobody on the team knows the system deeply anymore because there is no team, there's just one person moving too fast to ever stop and actually understand anything and one day something will break in a very specific way and the person who would have known exactly why is gone because the Q3 headcount review said they were redundant.

But the velocity metrics look incredible so.

I used to think ptr + 1 just moved to the next memory address, but it’s actually much smarter than that! I drew this memory map to track how a pointer traverses an integer array. Notice how each increment (ptr+1, ptr+2) jumps by the size of the data type (4 bytes for an int), not just 1 byte. [Image 1: Pointer Arithmetic Memory Map] [Image 2: Code Walkthrough showing the loop] This visual helped me understand why we don't need to manually calculate memory addresses while iterating through arrays. Would love to know—what was the hardest part for you when you first learned about pointer arithmetic?

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Hi, I have a 10+ years in programming. I want your thoughts for how will affect old style software developers. Will vibe coding will destroy the softwares or it will make them better?

many devs have now expressed that they are not writing code anymore, even in faang , they are just spinning agents, and just sit there .

See I ain't complaining that, I also want that , to just query and sit ( if that is what is happening ) , problem is no one is giving me job .

what do I mention in resume ? certainly not the usual cliche of experience and projects ??