Codex working for 43h straight on 1 task, no interruption: It's completely over for CS grads

[Seth Walsh]

The CS grad market is brutal right now.

For years, the implicit deal was simple:

Do the degree.
Learn to code.
Get the junior dev job.
Build from there.

That ladder is breaking.

Not because software is dead. Software is eating more of the world than ever.

The problem is that entry-level software work is being compressed from both sides.

At the top, senior engineers with AI tools can now do more of the work that used to justify junior headcount.

At the bottom, ambitious interns, offshore teams and AI-assisted non-engineers can produce basic scripts, dashboards, automations and internal tools cheaply.

So the average CS grad is stuck in the middle.

Too inexperienced to own production systems.
Too expensive to justify as pure learning headcount.
Too replaceable if all they can do is CRUD apps, basic tickets, tutorials and generic LeetCode.

The old advice was: “Learn to code.”

The new advice is: “Learn to own a valuable system.”

That means infra, security, data engineering, trading systems, AI tooling, cloud cost, reliability, latency, product engineering, automation tied to revenue, or domain-specific software that actually matters to the business.

Generic junior coding is no longer enough.

The market is not saying software is worthless.

It is saying undifferentiated software labour is getting repriced.

 

[sonic55555]

this is anti hindu propaganda

 

[milkshake_addict]

tldr

 

[Richard Cheese]

the issue that the current rate is heavily subsidized. but yeah now even a random schmuck can make a program that automates random stuff. like you don't even need programming or to navigate anything it'll compile for you and write for you with detailed instructions. hell it'll just fucking do it without even writing any code. again, I'm still not sure if it's worth the compute cost for what people are using it I.E. mundane shit. they need to make the models waaay cheaper.

 

[eduardkoopman]

How the internet, made 90% workers and journalists at the newspapers/media get fired.
So will AI, wil get 90% of the coders fired.
That's what I think.

Hopefully "consultants" are next, they are useless mostly anyways. You know, the whole "business advice" sctor with consultants throwing around suggestions that are "water is wet" basically