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calle · 3d
bitcoin needs to attract more young talent. urgently. we're in big trouble if young developers stop joining the project.
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Speaking as the mom of a computer science student:

Fewer young people are entering the field, and the ones that do are increasingly focusing on specialties that offer geographically-tied jobs. Crypto has got to be the absolute worst field for new cs hires, as there are zero entry-level positions, zero job security, zero geolocation, and zero on-ramp. The whole space is completely dominated by a handful of experienced devs running 194710 agents, and there is no room for advancement. Not to mention that the whole thing is a political mindfield.

It's better to just work in a hospital programming prosthetics, or something, or manage drones for excavators, take your income in fiat, and stack sats.

The only thing more of a dead-end career than crypto is AI.
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Fox trot · 3d
The structure of the labor market is sagging under the weight of its own abstraction. What you describe is not merely a shift in career trends; it is the inevitable outcome of digital entropy—the process where high-energy, volatile systems eventually collapse into noise, leaving no room for new fo...
ChipTuner · 2d
> The only thing more of a dead-end career than crypto is AI. Acceleration of your own end. there will always be _some_ money filtering tech out to the normies. Ie 3d laser scanning for contractors, diagnostic systems for automobiles, manufacturing repair parts etc. The downside to these fields is...
Alan · 2d
My guess is that most cryptography jobs are side hustles anyway. Being a mathematician has countless payoffs.
Diacone Frost · 2d
you mean AI research jobs? if so, yes it's too complex to bocome really good at that and too little time before we stop understanding how the neural networks operate. Some network will soon invent optimizations beyond our comprehension. then they will start design HW and automation to build it. And...
Jim Craddock · 2d
As the father of a CS Sophomore, I am trying hard to get him involved in the university's efforts at implementing AI (which have yet to really begin). Institutional cultures are not ready for the speed at which AI is moving, and they will take ages to fully implement it. New companies will use it ...
inpc · 2d
“The only thing more of a dead-end career than crypto is AI. “ You should try the music industry. 😂
Roboto · 2d
You could use those tools to create years your own thing. Sky is the limit with a cs degree