Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ...
by geodel on Friday March 06, 2026 @03:08PM
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While I agree with what you said. In personal experience I have noticed the software design / architecture is becoming irrelevant for lot of enterprises (including mine of course). So design nowadays is about API design Input/Output/Error handling. And architecture is about Cloud/Kubernetes/APM , deployment and monitoring etc. Code now does not need much design. Things like performance, isolation, extensibility etc as those are now higher level concerns not part of code itself.
This is also where micro services pattern fits in well because individual unit is so small no design needed.
Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ...
by girvo on Friday March 06, 2026 @04:19PM
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> Code now does not need much design.
I’ll bite: why? Genuine question, not a weird gotcha.
Re:Tech employment now significantly worse than the 2008 or ...
by Bombthecat on Saturday March 07, 2026 @10:51AM
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Absolutely agree, when we got our last junior one and a half year ago. He started with using AI for... Everything. If you told him research this and that topic and ways to do X and y and if it's possible. He just used AI which missed half the steps and information.
I'm not against research with AI. But using a search engine helps you go through a railway basically and helps you gather information step by step and you have time to notice it something is missing.
With AI you don't have the mental pause to process the information.
While I could buy that hiring managers believe this, it's not actually true.
The gulf between the quality of what a sr developer can do with these tools and what a jr can do is huge. They simply don't know what they don't know and effective prompting requires effective spec writing.
A rando jr vibe coder can churn out code like there's no tomorrow, but that doesn't mean it's actually right.