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No developer job has yet been lost to AI. We are in a huge recession, and companies like to have an excuse to fire people that can be spun as a positive.
by geon 1y ago
No developer job has yet been lost to AI. We are in a huge recession, and companies like to have an excuse to fire people that can be spun as a positive.
- hobs 1y agoAt my company at least four developer jobs were lost because of AI tooling, but keep spouting off about the entire economy at once.
- loloquwowndueo 1y agoFour out of how many?
- lm28469 1y agoI still believe the hype around llms killed way more jobs than the llms themselves, I wouldn't be surprised if they actually create job in the next few years given the awful shit that's being deployed these days
- ElevenLathe 1y agoThat makes the fear worse, not better. It's clear that fake AI enthusiasm is a litmus test for how much shit you'll eat in order to toe the company line so that you can avoid layoffs in the worst jobs market since the GFC.
- loloquwowndueo 1y ago* toe not tow
- ElevenLathe 1y agoThanks, I actually looked it up because I can never remember, but then autocorrect got me anyway!
- latexr 1y ago> No developer job has yet been lost to AI. https://content.techgig.com/technology/developer-fires-entire-team-for-ai-now-ends-up-searching-for-engineers-on-linkedin/articleshow/116659064.cms https://content.techgig.com/technology/developer-fires-entir...
- amanaplanacanal 1y agoSounds like those jobs still exist, from the article.