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Are you saying that precise thing changed 10 years ago and hasn't always kind of been with us? I am talking about the weak market for software engineers right

• chaps 1mo ago
  Erm, no. I'm saying that the entire industry failure to cultivate a wide spirit of mentorship is biting everyone's ass.
  • davidw 1mo ago
    I mean that could also be true, but it is not - IMO - the cause of the fairly sudden weak market for software engineers.
    • chaps 1mo ago
      IMO it is and I've been saying it for more than ten years that it would catch up with the industry. And it is now. The LLM shit is just a mask over the larger problem. The front fell off because the base was never built to support a shakeup of the industry. There's so little support, now and for as long as I can remember, for people to fail gracefully in the field. It's just up up up. And now that programmers are finding their jobs to be a little more precarious, maybe folk will start supporting mentorship as a practice. This isn't just a "market" problem. It's a problem of people not teaching others skills that help them thrive inside AND outside of work.