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2025 has been challenging for software engineers with a severe job market downturn worse than the pandemic era, where even top university graduates struggle to find entry-level positions. Despite widespread AI adoption, software quality hasn't improved—instead seeing record outages and code quality issues. The industry faces rising costs for development tools, forced AI integration into products that don't need it, and a shift away from fundamental improvements in favor of buzzword-driven features. While some positive developments exist (Rust in Linux, TypeScript updates), the overall direction feels exhausting, though the fundamentals of being good at programming and staying adaptable remain constant.

THE WORST YEAR IN PROGRAMMING HISTORY

We know we’re cooked when one of the “positives” is the adoption of Rust in the Linux kernel…

I would politely disagree the problem isn’t AI it’s the mindset of the companies. e.g. previously medical science wasn’t that advance but now it’s so advance that many surgeries doesn’t need to have any human interaction it’s done by robotic hands but does that make the surgeons worthless no. Now the surgeons learns how to operate the tools that’s how it should be. But many companies since we are in a bubble taking the advantage and laying off but soon more opportunities will grow and I guess more jobs will be created. But this is fully my opinion so I may be wrong.

AI is a good thing when been used as a tool(set). What we see is that customers / companies come to the first meeting and say something like “Wa have to use AI in any way!”. When asking them were they see a valid point to use it, they mostly don’t have an answer. But when telling them “AI is not needed here at any point” that seem to loose trust in us a partner because we “don’t want to use AI” or like we are not “a modern solution partner”.
If we continue walking on this way, we run into real big problems in the future.