Anonymous #1 1w

This part annoys me so much. Before it was layoffs bc companies weren’t doing well. Now it’s layoffs bc companies are doing well and “can do more with AI & less engineers”. Profits up, profits down. Believe it or not, straight to jail.

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Anonymous #2 1w

If it makes you feel any better. There’s gonna be a huge market for engineers who can fix vibe code.

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Anonymous #1 1w

Yeah layoffs are probably a bigger factor here come to think of it. But I also don’t buy that it’s because AI is replacing that productivity, I think it really has more to do with the fact these companies overhired in a talent war in like 2020-2021 because they had so much cash coming in and interest rates were low. Now that interest rates are a lot higher and exacerbated by the fact a lot of them are dumping ridiculous amounts of capex into AI, they feel the need to start laying people off

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Anonymous OP 1w

But it doesn’t seem like they’re actually getting more productive, innovative, or profitable in creating software. I can hardly think of any major innovations in software this year that aren’t just markdown files with a special name or letting AI agents talk to your APIs.

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