35, male, American citizen. applied to 800 jobs, few technical interviews, no offers. i believe with the advent of AI, the landscape has changed faster than the job market has corrected for it. It will never go back to the glory days of tech people getting hired, its over.

I don't believe for a second that AI is the reason. In anything, AI has contributed to added jobs, or at the minimum a shift in resources toward AI.

I do know that ML and AI are at least changing hiring in my own field (scientific research). Where I work, there is little hiring of subject-matter experts and a lot of hiring of data scientists and ML experts. I have talked to many managers over the last few years, and in many of these conversations, the managers imply that there is a lot less of a need for subject-matter expertise because the AI can fill in the blanks for us --- no need to hire expensive subject-matter experts anymore. In their minds, AI can do it cheaper and better. That's my own summary of these conversations, but it does show a shift in hiring patterns in scientific research at least.

I went to a bootcamp, (regret it), but the change from the learning process when i was in it (2021), to now, is steep. The use of AI in writing code has had to have an affect on the jr dev levels of hiring. How could it not? what seasoned SWE isnt more efficient now with the use of AI?

Agreed that AI hasn't replaced jobs but i think that AI driven hiring tools have shifted the landscape.

> 35, male, American citizen. applied to 800 jobs, few technical interviews, no offers.

Is your network nonexistent?

its huge, but i exhausted it completely, bad timing job market wise sometimes, other times roles too far outside my field