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Big Tech Told Kids to Code. The Jobs Didn’t Follow.
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technology/coding-ai-jobs-students.html?unlocked_article_code=1.0VA.GpDO.FmTTMzKkRYXj
www.nytimes.comGoodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle. (Gift Article)As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.
Replying to @Zaelaa@lemmy.zip
Then code for free. Open source is a huge threat to these fuckers that made you bust your asses and then NOT HIRE YOU ANYWAY.
They are hoping you just do something else. I say code something else and take their fucking power away.
Replying to @muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works
A threat? They will be more than happy to take work done for free and use it for their own needs. I guess at least if it’s a copyleft license they can’t just outright steal it.
Replying to @recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
But they can, and do.
Replying to @Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
Slip a pointless easter egg into the code. Make sure that if you don’t know it’s there, it can only be found by careful examination. Then sue any company whose code displays the easter egg and didn’t follow the terms of the license, and you’re set for life.
Replying to @nyan@lemmy.cafe
I was referring to AI scraping.
Replying to @nyan@lemmy.cafe
Only if you can afford better lawyers than they can.
Replying to @MangoCats@feddit.it
If you have a slam-dunk case, you can usually find a lawyer who’s willing to take their pay out of the winnings.
Replying to @nyan@lemmy.cafe
Certain areas of law have provisions for this, others don’t. GPL law tends toward the not very lucrative side of things. What are your monetary damages? Well, I was going to make $0, but they broke my terms so now my GPL software is better known but I still make $0 - compute damages please?
Replying to @MangoCats@feddit.it
Dual licensing is a thing, so it’s not 0€$£. Also if they didn’t care for the license, it’s probably also not crediting you for your work, so your software isn’t even better known.
Replying to @zaphod@sopuli.xyz
Once you blast the lawsuit into the press your software gets better known. FFmpeg was fairly well known before it got hijacked and stuffed in every set-top video decoder box on the planet, but now it has that reputation as well.
Replying to @recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
All the big tech companies are built on open source projects… No idea what the guy you replied to was on about.
Any useful thing you code will be used to feed the beast.
Replying to @skibidi@lemmy.world
Company: “buy this code from us” Consumer: “no, the guy you stole from is giving it away for free. We’ll take from him directly and cut you out.” Company: Vaderno.wav
Replying to @skibidi@lemmy.world
Usually companies avoid GPL code like a plague
Replying to @Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it
That’s where the magic plagiarism LLM comes in to launder the code.
Replying to @recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
wait… it will be a matter of national security and like you know “you and what army”
Replying to @mynameisbob@lemmy.ml
Yeah, I thought that foolishness was behind us with the crypto export impossible to enforce rules, but it’s baaaack with AI.
Replying to @recarsion@discuss.tchncs.de
If the code is GPL they’ll generally be scared to use it. I agree with you for non-copyleft open source though
Replying to @CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
When all the valuable code is free, the price of valuable code will be 0.
People will only profit from the value of the code, not the creation/ownership of the code itself.
It’s a fundamentally different model, not a broken one. It will break a lot of businesses if they don’t adapt.
Replying to @CommanderCloon@lemmy.ml
Yep, corporate software developer here and they’re scared shitless of incorporating anything gpl’d.