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The West Forgot How to Build. Now It's Forgetting Code
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this post was submitted on 27 Apr 2026
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It's really sad state programmers (especially juniors) are in right now, I guess it will get worse over time. I had a meeting with recruiters in my university, many of em just said to me send email and useless stuff that don't go anywhere but couple of em said they're don't even hire developers anymore and make AI do the entire job (I went on one of their websites and it didn't work :)). Also hackathons are really in bad state, most of em advertise ai and vibe coding, idk how anyone can learn from hackathons in this state they are in
Software engineering is comparable to architecture; if you give a rookie professional tooling, they can maybe build a safe shack or tree house. But you wouldn't want to visit a skyscraper they've built.
Except that architecture has safety codes written in blood. And AI is only good in building lots of walls.
In a few years, corpos will be desperate for programmers. Their codebases will be in shambles and the frontier models (that can barely make anything out of that mess) will not be so heavily subsidized anymore. (Or permanently offline.)
I think it will happen eventually but I doubt it will be in just a few years, hope to be proven wrong tho
I note that even job offers are written by AI. Every advertisement for, say, embedded developers, seems to use the same generic keywords and interfaces, sprinkled in with words that sound good (like "platform thinking") but just don't make sense.
that's been job descriptions for software development for decades now, long before LLMs