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Title: Learn To Code? Visualizing The Decline Of American Software Developer Jobs
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URL Source: https://www.zerohedge.com/technolog ... erican-software-developer-jobs
Published: Mar 15, 2025
Author: Tyler Durden
Post Date: 2025-03-15 07:55:30 by Horse
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Views: 605
Comments: 35
by Tyler Durden The surge in tech hiring in the U.S. in 2021 and 2022 represented one of the most aggressive talent grabs in industry history, only to be followed by widespread layoffs and hiring freezes as economic headwinds and post-pandemic corrections hit the sector. This dramatic swing has reshaped the software development job market, leaving both companies and developers to navigate a new landscape of cautious growth and strategic hiring. This graphic, via Visual Capitalist's Kayla Zhu, shows the percent change in software development job postings on Indeed U.S. since Feb. 1, 2020 to Feb. 28, 2025. Poster Comment: 44 years ago I learned to program IBM computers in assembly language. When I entered 3rd grade, Harry Truman was President of the US.
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#1. To: Horse (#0)
Well, that would explain what I'm seeing in the job market right now. I had an assembly programming course in college. But before that, I programmed in binary. My Dad bought me a computer on a circuit card. It had a row of red LEDs, 16 for the address, and 8 for data. That was the monitor. The keyboard consisted of two rows of electric contact pads next to each of the 24 LEDs so I could switch each LED to on or off. I programmed it to multiply 2 numbers. I showed my achievement to my Mom, with the answer clearly shown in binary form on the LEDs. She wasn't very impressed. I think going forward the programming profession is going to be wiped out by AI. Just ask an AI to make a program that flawlessly plays tic tak toe and it's done in seconds. All us programmers are and have ever been are intepreters between end users and computers, making them do what people want though the art & science of programming. But programming tools have evolved to increase efficiency and the end result of that will be no more need for human programmers. People just tell AI what they want a program or even a computer to do and it will do it.
Sounds like there is a good chance that "Deep Though" will work out the answer really is 42.
Just tested my theory out with Grok. I asked this: It replied: =================================== Here's a Python program that implements a tic-tac-toe game where the computer plays perfectly except for every 3rd game, where it intentionally makes a suboptimal move to potentially lose: python import random import os class TicTacToe: def __init__(self): self.board = [' ' for _ in range(9)] self.game_count = 0 def print_board(self): os.system('cls' if os.name == 'nt' else 'clear') for i in range(0, 9, 3): print(f"{self.board[i]} | {self.board[i+1]} | {self.board[i+2]}") if i < 6: print("-" * 9) def available_moves(self): return [i for i, spot in enumerate(self.board) if spot == ' '] def is_winner(self, player): win_conditions = [ [0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8], # Rows [0, 3, 6], [1, 4, 7], [2, 5, 8], # Columns [0, 4, 8], [2, 4, 6] # Diagonals ] return any(all(self.board[i] == player for i in condition) for condition in win_conditions) def is_board_full(self): return ' ' not in self.board def minimax(self, is_maximizing, depth=0): if self.is_winner('X'): return -10 + depth if self.is_winner('O'): return 10 - depth if self.is_board_full(): return 0 if is_maximizing: best_score = -float('inf') for move in self.available_moves(): self.board[move] = 'O' score = self.minimax(False, depth + 1) self.board[move] = ' ' best_score = max(score, best_score) return best_score else: best_score = float('inf') for move in self.available_moves(): self.board[move] = 'X' score = self.minimax(True, depth + 1) self.board[move] = ' ' best_score = min(score, best_score) return best_score def best_move(self, lose_mode=False): if lose_mode and self.available_moves(): # Make a suboptimal move by choosing randomly from non- winning moves moves = self.available_moves() return random.choice(moves) best_score = -float('inf') best_move = None for move in self.available_moves(): self.board[move] = 'O' score = self.minimax(False) self.board[move] = ' ' if score > best_score: best_score = score best_move = move return best_move def play_game(self): self.game_count += 1 self.board = [' ' for _ in range(9)] lose_mode = (self.game_count % 3 == 0) while True: # Player's turn self.print_board() while True: try: move = int(input("Enter your move (0-8): ")) if 0 <= move <= 8 and self.board[move] == ' ': break print("Invalid move!") except ValueError: print("Please enter a number!") self.board[move] = 'X' if self.is_winner('X'): self.print_board() print("You win!") break if self.is_board_full(): self.print_board() print("It's a tie!") break # Computer's turn computer_move = self.best_move(lose_mode) self.board[computer_move] = 'O' if self.is_winner('O'): self.print_board() print("Computer wins!") break if self.is_board_full(): self.print_board() print("It's a tie!") break def main(): game = TicTacToe() while True: game.play_game() play_again = input("Play again? (y/n): ").lower() if play_again != 'y': break print(f"Games played: {game.game_count}") if __name__ == "__main__": main() ===================================
#8. To: All (#7)
And I ran it and played 3 games. Won the 3rd.
I get the gist of what that code is doing. I've never really had any reason to write gaming software, so the inner iterations hurt my brain.
With a little effort, that could be re-used as part of a teaching course on writing VBA macros in Excel. It's all just 0 and 1, after all :)
So, the answer to life the universe and everything is indeed 42. I was hoping to sleep in tomorrow.
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#4. To: Pinguinite (#1)
I think going forward the programming profession is going to be wiped out by AI. Just ask an AI to make a program that flawlessly plays tic tak toe and it's done in seconds. All us programmers are and have ever been are intepreters between end users and computers, making them do what people want though the art & science of programming. But programming tools have evolved to increase efficiency and the end result of that will be no more need for human programmers. People just tell AI what they want a program or even a computer to do and it will do it.
#7. To: ghostrider (#4)
Give me a console based python program that will play tic tac toe flawlessly except for every 3rd game, which it can lose.
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def is_winner(self, player): win_conditions = [ [0, 1, 2], [3, 4, 5], [6, 7, 8], # Rows [0, 3, 6], [1, 4, 7], [2, 5, 8], # Columns [0, 4, 8], [2, 4, 6] # Diagonals ] return any(all(self.board[i] == player for i in condition) for condition in win_conditions)
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