[LRUG] Ghosttown

[Yevhenii Kurtov]

People who are writing software at LLM quality or are stuck in their
professional growth are in tough place. I.e. If the last ten years of
experience is just one year repeated ten times without innovative thinking
and problem solving like
https://dev.37signals.com/the-rails-delegated-type-pattern/, then it's not
a great place to be professionally.

On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 14:12, Frederick Cheung via Chat <chat at lists.lrug.org>
wrote:

> 4 companies said they were hiring at the meet-up on Monday (carwow, the
> British business bank, scan.com, an ivf related company) which is quite a
> few more than recently so I don’t think it’s quite the end.
>
> Tough for juniors for sure!
>
> Fred.
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2026 at 13:01, Michael Pavling via Chat <
> chat at lists.lrug.org> wrote:
>
>> Well... The jobs market looks pretty bleak, doesn't it?
>>
>> There seems to be no entry-level roles now, and the mid/senior roles are
>> few and far between, with hundreds of applicants scrabbling to stand out
>> with their AI tuned CVs :-(
>>
>> What's gonna be the case in a couple of years? (Or even at the end of
>> this year)
>> Is that it for Ruby jobs now? Is it the end for almost all tech stacks? 😬
>>
>> Do we all just need to re-align to be maintainers of the output?
>>
>> *sigh* What's everyone's hope for a best outcome?
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