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Re:Ask HN: How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after... by Nextgrid on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:39PM (#46207887)
AI is moving so fast even people doing it full time can't always keep up... which is not a big deal because very little of this "AI" effort actually makes any money.

Let them burn their money figuring out what works and what doesn't, and then when you come back you can easily pick up the stuff that works without being distracted by what doesn't.

If you look back at the Cambrian explosion of frontend JS complexity, do you feel like you gained anything from being there, versus just jumping in now and focusing on the few technologies that stabilized? The same is gonna happen with AI.

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Re:Ask HN: How difficult will resuming a SWE career be after... by justchad on Tuesday December 09, 2025 @12:44PM (#46207971)
That’s a great point about the frontend complexity. Picking it up now is more difficult overall but at least most of the complexity has been decided on and “stabilized” as much as possible.
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