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Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?

Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?.
There are 35% fewer software developer job listings on Indeed today, than five years ago. Compared to other industries, job listings for software engineers grew much more in 2021-2022, but have declined much faster since. A look into possible reasons for this, and what could come next.

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dyowee

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I’ll still wait a year or two to see how AI will impact software engineering, but LLM has helped me a lot the past few months, instead of just searching Google or StackOverflow.

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AstonJ

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There was a similar blog post a few years ago:

And there have been some articles on how AI is impacting dev jobs, eg this one:

Perhaps articles like this one might be worth looking at too:

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