The automation which allowed 99% of the jobs to disappear, will be responsible for (pulling this out of my ass, to get a point across) 90-200% of the new jobs which we now can do.
The funny thing about Langchain is (and a lot of developers will attest to this), is the more "serious" your application becomes, or your app becomes production ready. The more you start to understand what Langchain is doing, and you will start to rewrite the custom classes to your own ones, and the custom logic to do your own stuff. Until at some point you realize, that you don't need a wrapper for an API, and can do everything with about 10% of the code.
Langchain is like a backwards 101 course into APIs for LLM's, where you start out trying to learn a new framework, but through debugging sessions end up understanding whats really being done.
Yes, I do post in these hiring threads as well as freelancer threads on my personal account every month. I have been working with two companies, and have invoiced them for nearly $200k in the past ~2 years for development and consulting work. One of them is a startup, the other a software shop for startups. All web-dev & api work. In both cases, they reached out to me. I have had no luck reaching out to companies in those threads.
If all you knew was Rust, then getting a job in this already harsh market would be much harder. It would be easier if you knew ML, but it does really depend on what else you bring to the table. So, what else do you know? The job market might change on a dime, make sure you don't just learn the latest hype cycle of frameworks, languages or try to optimize for hiring right now.
I am a backend engineer who have experience building microservices and data pipelines for more than a decade. I felt AI/ML is a natural expansion to my skillset as I currently work on Scala, Apache Spark, Kafka and some Golang.
Yes, then I would go the AI/ML route. I'm also mainly a backend engineer. I considered investing time into Rust as well. But employability is questionable. I'm already in the AI/ML field, so I chose to get more experience in the sales & product side of engineering.
I guess I fall in the minority camp here, that I don't mind paying for YouTube to not see ads. I think they've earned it, the creators earned it, but I still use Sponsorblock to block most other ads on Youtube.
>The EUIPO speculates that financial pressures, like inflation, means that people have less money to spend on entertainment. This can be seen in the way that fewer people are signing up for Netflix or Amazon Prime – and some are even cancelling their subscriptions altogether.
This does play a part, but I'd wager that a larger part of piracy becoming more attractive is these services becoming more expensive (I really doubt that in this case its inflation...), while they have less to offer. And that you now need accounts with multiple streaming services to watch all the popular shows. And then also a crack-down on account sharing started happening. It shouldn't come as a surprise that piracy is becoming popular again.
All the stress, risk and sleepless nights which come with running a startup, isn't worth the (potential) 10-10000x pay-off for me, when I already enjoy enough freedoms (autonomy + income + free time) to do what I love outside of my career. So I greatly prefer to piggy back a startups salary and compensation package instead, and hop to the next one a few years later. Having seen the inside of quite a few, I don't feel like I am missing out on starting one myself.
There is this very popular night market where I live, and whenever I drive through a corner of this market, the Bluetooth in my car just stops. I always wondered what this was. There is just so much interference on a square meter.
