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Are We Holding On to a Version of the Tech Industry That No Longer Exists?

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u/SnooConfections1353 wrote (the comment Michael replied to):

The tech industry used to operate on a legacy model where building serious software required insane amounts of capital, huge teams, and years of infrastructure buildout. That model rewarded the companies that could raise the most money and hire the most people. But that era is fa

u/michaelnovati replied ·
I think the last statement about bootcamps and CS grads needs more explanation and curious about your views on junior vs senior. I'm seeing people left right and center that are not using AI getting eaten by AI, or people without any taste and judgment from experience just not getting hired to begin with. This to me is going to upend the entire career path for engineers. As you stated, processes become similar, do far more with far less. We could produce 100X the amount of software with 1/10th the engineers.