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Senior Engineers Are the Next DRAM Shortage (blog.herlein.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The graph is anticipating the future. Not current. Take a couple years off.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago*

    My family had just bought a house before I was laid off, and we're burning through our savings at an alarming rate. If I don't find a job soon, I'm going to have to liquidate my retirement account. I don't have years, I have months.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

    But if you take a couple of years off, won't it be tough to get back in?

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  • [–] 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    No one knows.

    I think a true Sr shortage is likely decade+ away. So if you need money you gotta make ends meet somehow.

    I’m leaning into the AI space, becoming proficient at understanding and developing harnesses for different purposes, running local models, adjusting to context switching more often than not, etc.

    I’m currently working a short term AI Cyber gig for a financial firm I already had a relationship with, but then taking time off to tinker.

    Dev/Sys/Net Operations, Cyber. All great fields for leaning into AI

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago

    If you can afford taking a few years off in the first place, you can also afford starting a company and doing your own projects for a while. Don’t leave the field behind, put some software on app stores and pick your topics by what skills you want to learn or maintain. Maybe it even makes money.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yup, nobody can get to senior for the same reason RAM is so high: LLMs. In this case, big-brained execs not hiring anyone at lower levels and replacing them all with AI...a little down the road there will be one old engineer named Lily who still understands how tech works and everyone will call her the oracle.

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