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Experts Say Young People Should Learn to Code so They Can Get a Job 10 Years Ago (hard-drive.net)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 weeks ago

Like many fields, computer work is still good if you’re drawn to it as a legitimate interest of yours. I’m part of a software engineering group working on embedded systems. I think the other engineers and our boss all really like what we have going, but you can tell everybody is a proper computer nerd and not the “I heard there was money in computers” type.

Admittedly though, generative AI is hitting certain segments of the field harder than others.