alt Hacker NewsWorth also noting that this chart has the bottom of the Y-axis cut off, exaggerating differences and making visual intuition basically useless.
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The format is editable. The line chart seems always to be scaled so the minima is at the bottom, but you can get the zero point by changing it to bars.
The options do seem a bit idiosyncratic, but I guess they are useful for the kind of data the site users usually look at.
The art of putting wavy lines across an axis to denote a range skip has atrophied, probably because few charting software packages support it ?
But it essentially shows the same thing, the covid overhiring boom and then layoff cycle post-covid is over. And jobs are rising again.
What’s absolutely mind blowing to me though…the idea AI isn’t causing software engineering jobs to collapse…which you would think would make people here happy…is something that makes software engineers upset??
It’s almost as if everyone here has married their identity to the idea they are victims of AI progress and any suggestion otherwise is ego destruction.
”What??? You mean the job market is expanding and the reason I can’t find a job is…me? That can’t possibly be true I’m a genius, the data is clearly wrong!”
This graph was scaled to 2020=100 so not as bad as excluding 0 for raw numbers.