Hacker News with Generative AI: Industry Trends

It feels like 2004 again (anildash.com)
I keep having a conversation with people around the tech world about how the industry’s current state of change — especially the potential disruption of incumbents — feels like nothing so much as a cyclical repeat of what we saw in 2004.
Ask HN: How long to stay in a role to avoid being considered a "job hopper"? (ycombinator.com)
It really depends on the industry. These are opinions, but for a seat-of-the-pants dev job like a web developer, at least a year is fine, with the occasional longer stint of 3-5 years recommended so it shows that you are capable of having a little patience and can own the full product lifecycle.
The Continued Trajectory of Idiocy in the Tech Industry (soatok.blog)
Every hype cycle in the technology industry continues a steady march towards a shitty future that nobody wants.
Companies need junior devs (softwaredoug.com)
Getting coffee with a bunch of local tech leaders, I surprised myself with how stridently I argued why companies should hire junior engineers.
"SRE" doesn't seem to mean anything useful any more (rachelbythebay.com)
Python Developers Survey 2023 Results (jetbrains.com)
Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022) (cvitkovic.net)
AI companies are pivoting from creating gods to building products (aisnakeoil.com)
AI audiobooks – 10% more audiobooks this year than all of 2023 (bookrank.io)
80% of developers are unhappy. The problem is not AI, nor is coding (shiftmag.dev)
The rise of the analytics pretendgineer (benn.substack.com)
DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either (thenewstack.io)
DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either (thenewstack.io)
DevOps: The Funeral (2023) (logical.li)
The Death of the Junior Developer (sourcegraph.com)
The software world is destroying itself (2018) (greenspector.com)
The deskilling of web dev is harming us all (baldurbjarnason.com)
Am I stupid to start web design agency in 2024 (ycombinator.com)
The AI 'Safety Movement' Is Dead (bloomberg.com)