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They are not ghost jobs what they are .are recruitment agencies' CV harvesting to put on their database.

Considering maintenance is key in any new software project. Great video Cody! 🤖

Thank you! That would be nice to hear your opinion on Copilot features

11:30 You might need to get an english-speaking editor for your videos or review the work yourself.

I have been telling people for almost 25 years now. Stay away from jobs that deliver products in digital format. BTW I never used linkedin for anything. Why would you expose yourself?

I guess developers will become like that guy in front of an orchestra. But data is still dirty and unreliable. It's like snake eating it's own tail.

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I'd counter Easy Apply, which most job portals have a version of, benefits both sides; the employee for not having to upload a resume AND copy/paste the resume into database linked text fields and giving the employer a standardized format. One issue for me is some employers, using systems like Workday, are chasing great candidates away expecting everyone to create a new account, copy/paste, upload the resume, and answer often irrelevant questionnaires just to apply to 1 job, at 15-30 minutes. Screening people based on not wasting time will, in my experience, leave you with people with lesser time management skills than people whose time is valued.

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I had to go through some tutorials to learn the basics in python (I picked a Udemy class from Colt Steel, which worked quite nicely for me). At the same time I had to learn everything about github, and took a couple of certifications in Data Science and ML. The ML one pushed me to use functions, and the class went though some nice theory as well, so it was not too bad. So I would not say that tutorials are useless when you really start from scratch like I did. Only after that was I able to start cloning repos and try to make the code work on my local, and eventually modify the code to do what I wanted. It's a process which took time, but allowed me to veer into more data engineering jobs. But I must say that I like the idea to "shortcut" to the tutorial's repo and work reverse from there, not sure though for people who are brand new with coding and github? What's your experience with complete newbies following this method? Cheers 😊

Essentialism is so good! Great list indeed 👌 And read Tim's 4-Hour Workweek in three different languages back in 2012~2014. What a book!

So what do you think should I learn basic tech like html,css,js or just the foundation os, networking, DBMS as college student

🤖 Love it! Always love a Cody Codes video release day 👊🏼

80% of software sucks and is way underdeveloped. 80% of codebases are thoroughly unreadable. If AI can change that, I’m all for it. And I can say that because the same 80% rule applies to every single industry without fail.

Never stop networking! Also, as a contractor, I always reinvest in myself (new skills/certs) & take on smaller, direct moonlighting work - esp w new tech (AI)...

I think you nailed the dynamic that goes on in the programmer's economy, Cody! During boom times, there's this huge type of expansion in IT where it's not so much software maintenance as it is software replacement. As soon as the true economy takes a nose-dive, software goes into this almost pure maintenance mode. I suspect that A.I. isn't ending jobs as much as it is scaring off new hiring. IT does this cycle between all maintenance, which then later transitions back into this cycle to replace everything with the newest thing. Software just waits for that next cycle to hit and then tries to be on the leading edge of capitalizing on the next craze. Software and most of IT is not a steady industry, which is why it routinely pushes the "shortage" narrative, which is almost analogous to saying something like there is a shortage of part-time workers in this country, or IOW it's a ridiculous argument that this industry makes to share with people who are trying to make decisions over their own future. It should also be said that a lot of companies wait through many tech cycles before they finally upgrade their technology, and this has always been true. I'd say we're firmly in a tech recession at the moment. In the past, these bust cycles could easily last for five years or more. When there is an upcycle, it's more like musical chairs, where one has to find a chair before the music stops.

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Hey interesting video. I think restraint was always an important concept in software engineering regardless of AI or not. Feature creeps and maintenance hell have always been a problem and I'm sure AI will only exacerbate issue.

Tell that to the people interviewing ANYWHERE.

Talking about Maintenance Nightmares. I'm a backup innovation owner for a legacy web application written in C# in the mid 2000s for my company. ServiceNow is replacing the functions of this app, but the stakeholders do not want to switch and instead stick with this tool which has been a royal pain to maintain. The original developers did not write a single line of comments or any maintainable infrastructure into the system in the 6 months of building it; I kid you not. For years, the project has been patched with feature upon feature with little regard to maintaining any level of documentation for developers to continue, with knowledge passed by word of mouth from the outgoing to the incoming as a condensed knowledge transfer so over time knowledge about the applications are lost. We have already did a major hosting migration once in the last two years from Pivotal Cloud Foundry to Open Shift Could Foundry and now the time has come to go to Azure. Since my company is huge and has a lot of bureaucracy, it has effectively made any migration incredibly slow as just getting our subscriptions and spaces takes 1.5 months per space. Following this there is firewall rule requests we need to submit and then and only then can we have the ability to effectively test to see if it broke anything. Additionally there are services and APIs we use as dependencies that are still on-premesis and so are not accessible from an on-cloud application which further complicates the urgency to have all migration work done at the same time. We have basically sent our business facing app team an ultimatum; give us a decision by end of month or we will shut down the app. Our deadline to get everything to Azure before they shutdown the OpenShift Cloud Foundry Service is either June or July so we are under intense pressure to get a response from them and they aren't making up their damned minds. The Number 1 Rule for any developers out there that care about new systems is to add at least inline comments for every method you create, at most block comment every method as well. The Number 2 Rule, ALWAYS use 3 letter Hungarian notation for your variables (e.g. intCount), so that other developers can actually tell at a glance without tooltips what data type your variable is (this is especially important in non-strict typed languages). The Number 3 Rule, Make your code less dependent on each other, while also making it cohesive so it doesn't fall victim to the dreaded spaghetti code. And the Number 4 Rule, Make sure any function does only one job. That one job could be a universal interpreter to multiple variants or overloads of a function or call an API at the macro level, but at the micro level could be handling authentication that is shared between API methods in an API service.

What a load of bs

Do you still believe the job market for software engineers is improving in 2025?

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🤖Good stuff! Legacy code overhead is real. I spend 95% of my time reading code, not writing it. I don't see AI ever making that job any easier - "How do I change an engine on a 747 while in flight?" is basically now THE JOB.

🤖 Thank you. This stimulates a number of ideas and questions. As developers leverage AI to be exponentially more productive and as code becomes more opaque to humans (I suspect) in this process, I would think it will be important to shift focus on *how* the code is written in regard to things like modularity, plugability, maintainability, testability, etc. Since I'm not really in the industry I can't say that this isn't already true or an existing focus and concern. Even if it is, I think AI can remove the cost barrier of development in how the pieces talk to each other, that might have been too time expensive when done by hand. I really don't know. Just thoughts.

I have a friend that is older that was heavily recruited to come out of retirement during the pandemic. He had experience programming in obscure operating systems and was even programming during the time of renting mainframe time. Apparently, a lot of big companies had still not updated their OS, and all of the engineers were dying off. Also, he may have been in the 1979 World Disco Championship. After hearing his story, I found it ironic that technical obsolescence could be an employment advantage............

Great thoughts. Per 6:10, I am curious what the demand will be for more hardcore debugging skills with faster velocity and a lot of AI generated schlock. My biggest hope is we will start moving fast enough that we can finally smash the fake Agile corporate SCRUM, and the whole concept of endless meetings to write out how we are going to change a button. However, I think this might be optimistic delusion on my part. Like you, I'm not worried about the demand for developers decreasing.

Thanks🤖 Do you offer coffee chats / 1:1 consulting as well Cody? I want to discuss some questions with you which are currently bothering me a lot.. I want to switch jobs, but confused about few critical things

If you keep seeing the same job from the same company over and over it can mean, they hired someone and that person was either fired or quit so they are looking to fill the position again, trust me this happens more than you might think.

Temo angencys guys, if you can pass a drug test, you got a job, simple

Hey, so I saw your journey getting laid off in 2024 and I was wondering if it was possible for me to get in contact with you privately. A family member of mine recently went through a similar situation and I wanted to see if I could get some advice to help them. If you can’t it’s totally fine but I would greatly appreciate the help.

So no self taught engineer should even try?

My solution to the job market: 1) Move to India 2) Wait for US companies to post outsourced jobs 3) Get H1B'd back into the US with a coding job 4) Profit

I always found it a bit depressing when candidates were over prepared and had clearly encountered the solutions for every question I asked. Were they smart? Did they work hard? Could they handle ambiguity? Would they contribute back to the team? Software engineering isn't like chess, where the best players memorize outcomes, but is more about devising weird technical and novel concepts that no one knows can even be built. We build the solutions out of order all while avoiding runaway costs, technical debt and documentation of any kind. All whilst being forced to take weird corporate training on how to avoid being corrupt and sexist along the way.

cool stuff thank you! Happy new year!

You are such a negative vibe. Post some helpful ways to land a job and what to wat h out for. After listening to you I felt even more hopeless.

Don't ever vote for democrats again. That is why we shit the bed from 2020 to 2024. My God.

As a person that’s been going the self-directed learning route wrt full stack software development trying to transition careers, I’m actually trying find an data analyst/analytics engineering job or Business Intelligence/Analyst job as a first tech position so I can make a lateral move in SWE. Like, I’m trying to track down like a shitty entry level digital marketing analytics role so I get atleast a foot in the door somehow lol

They will lay you off when you are not adding any value to the company. Senior positions are not 8 to 5 jobs.

Elon musk seems to enjoy laying people off

why don't employers just respond to people who reach out. Over 90 percent of people who apply don't reach out.

I think linkedin has made it better, but too much people have ocupied job market

This explains why it's a small % easier for me than my peers. They were going for the easiest most convenient route, I expanded and used as many forms of connections as I can open up. I was opened to any kind of opportunity. My college mentor told me "If you want to succeed, don't do what you are told. Everyone is following that method. Focus your time on path less traveled. You get less competition and less effort in getting a job. You may have to spend more time and try alot harder but less often to succeed."

Same here but for me it has been over two years since my lay off. Yet I only started looking for work this year. But just like at the end of 2022 I have seen the result and influence of AI. It has effected the tech field and I have not got any hits plus the astronomical asks for these roles. Where they want a unicorn that knows design, full stack development, testing, lead or management experience plus database or cloud base server management experience.

I barely go on linked in anymore. It’s so depressing ever since I got laid off. All I saw were annoying as heck recruiters claiming they had the guide to get a job and none of it worked.

Unfortionetly IT'S NOT COMMING BACK, it would get much worse if any , I hope I'm wrong.

The current tech job market is extremely toxic. Many companies flood LinkedIn with fake job postings, while real opportunities feel like a brutal Hunger Games competition. Candidates are dragged through countless rounds of interviews, even though one or two would be enough to determine if they're the right fit. This drawn-out process seems designed to find the "perfect slave specimen"-a developer with 10x skills willing to accept a low salary for a junior-level role.

For most entry level jobs, employers want the experience of a 50 year old, work ethic of a 70 year old, the health of a 30 year old, the energy of a 22 year old, but want to pay them the salary of a 16 year old.

Can you tell us what the company name rhymes with? LOL