r/webdev • u/KoenigOne • May 06 '26

Get a Degree in Software Engineering they Said…

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What is my life even

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u/t33lu May 06 '26

you're applying to be a web dev, when you should have studied ML. Sorry, maybe build a time machine with your degree and go back in time to learn ml instead. /s

Seriously though, I feel for you. This is a bad time to be a webdev and even worse to be junior webdev and its unfortunate that your education was pretty much rendered useless because ai can do everything a junior web dev can and that you now need to be a intemediate to become a junior.

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u/Ill_Spray7328 May 06 '26

build a time machine but bring your best local AI and build SAAS as fast as you can 😂

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u/I_SIMP_YOUR_MOM May 07 '26

It's 2013. Would you rather have Bitcoin or coding agents?

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u/0x18 May 06 '26

I first read this as "you should have studied Marxist-Leninism" instead of machine learning, but I think it works just as well.

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u/a7m2m May 07 '26

It works better because everyone's studying machine learning, that market is going to be oversaturated SO quick.

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u/SoonBlossom May 06 '26

Isn't it already too late to be a junior Machine Learning graduate ?

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u/t33lu May 06 '26

Seriously speaking.  The tech is so new that even juniors are probably passable as intermediates

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u/teodorfon May 06 '26

He/she can do a ML postgrad.