• Duamerthrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    The plan was always to over saturate the market with coders so the big techs could lower their wages.

  • buddascrayon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8 hours

    What’s the word from “billionaires are job creators” people? Oh, yeah. Their the ones laying everyone off in order to use “AI”.

  • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    16 hours

    Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.

    They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.

    • recarsion@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
      16 hours

      A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.

      • CommanderCloon@lemmy.mlEnglish
        8 hours

        If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though

        • aesthelete@lemmy.worldEnglish
          25 seconds

          Yep, corporate software developer here and they’re scared shitless of incorporating anything gpl’d.

        • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
          3 hours

          When all the valuable code is free, the price of valuable code will be 0.

          People will only profit from the value of the code, not the creation/ownership of the code itself. LLMs seem like they’re dropping the cost of code creation significantly (50-90% so far)… impacted players should plan accordingly.

          It’s a fundamentally different model, not a broken one. It will break a lot of businesses if they don’t adapt.

      • skibidi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11 hours

        All the big tech companies are built on open source projects… No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.

        Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.

        • muusemuuse@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          7 hours

          Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav

      • mynameisbob@lemmy.mlEnglish
        10 hours

        wait… it will be a matter of national security and like you know “you and what army”

        • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
          3 hours

          Yeah, I thought that foolishness was behind us with the crypto export impossible to enforce rules, but it’s baaaack with AI.

        • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
          11 hours

          Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.

            • nyan@lemmy.cafeEnglish
              3 hours

              If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who’s willing to take their pay out of the winnings.

              • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
                3 hours

                Certain areas of law have provisions for this, others don’t. GPL law tends toward the not very lucrative side of things. What are your monetary damages? Well, I was going to make $0, but they broke my terms so now my GPL software is better known but I still make $0 - compute damages please?

  • massive_bereavement@fedia.io
    16 hours

    “The rhetoric was, if you just learned to code, work hard and get a computer science degree, you can get six figures for your starting salary,” Ms. Mishra, now 21, recalls hearing as she grew up in San Ramon, Calif.

    This has never ever been true for any job, especially at 21 years old.

    I mean maybe there’s a rare trade that gives you the bick bucks from the get go, but even law practice and finance takes a lot of unpaid work to finally get properly paid.

  • db2@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20 hours

    The jobs didn’t follow because “big tech” lost what was left of its collective mind and put their heads all the way up each others asses.

    • MBech@feddit.dkEnglish
      10 hours

      The jobs were never going to follow either way. It was a way to make more workers so they could pay everyone less. If there’s 100 people practically begging for your job for half the pay, good luck negotiating a raise.

  • architect@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    9 hours

    “Go do what we told a billion others to do! Don’t break the mold!” Yea, big shock there.

  • Amoxtli@thelemmy.clubEnglish
    10 hours

    That is what the democrats told people who lost their jobs to closed coal mines and closed manufacturing plants.

    • MangoCats@feddit.itEnglish
      3 hours

      I knew a guy who left Detroit at 30 to install A/C systems in Florida, made good money but by 40 he was tired of crawling around hot attics, so he went back to school, learned to code and went back to Detroit to work software instead of the factory floors… he did alright, didn’t set the world on fire, but also didn’t retire to an early grave with health problems from breathing fiberglass in 130 degree confined spaces.