it’s also resulting in fresh grads that don’t know anything. this is naturally by design. within the past couple years I’ve come across so many new devs that just don’t know jack. can they answer tickets? sure. can they provide prompts to an agent? yes. beyond that? good luck. and their salaries reflect this.
No one is firing workers for AI. They’re correcting the size of their workforce after decades of overhiring and using AI as an excuse — to make it look like a good, forward-looking business decision, instead of showing that it’s fixing a mistake that went on for so long.
sounds like a troll, but they started massively laying off since 2023, both my bros were affected severely, and then the company my older bro got bought off down the line. im in a tech hub in the west, and all they are peddling in the tech conference is all AI related, before it use to be a variety of software/tech, now its the same tech with more AI.
Nah I’m sorry you’re dead wrong. My last job we straight up got rid of 95% of our HR department and all of our interns and were replaced with ChatGPT Enterprise licenses. Then they laid off the graphic design department and left just the head of the department and 2 staff. Then I was laid off alongside over half of the IT department.
both of my bros suffered job loss, or "sidelined indefnitely. one got layed off since 23, and the current one have been “on the bench” since last year.
If your company did indeed lay off 95% of HR and replaced it with ChatGPT you need to find another job somewhere like now. They are about two lawsuits from not existing.
Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn’t mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.
I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup’s “AI” is largely “Actually Indians.” Their service is an agent that writes its own “tools” to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don’t work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them or do the tasks.
Every company that fires people for AI is going to regret it so much in the long run…
not if they all got thier golden parachutes, they treat it as an endgame, just run it like a PE firm and move on.
They’ve already had a spate of serious, unprecedented outages affecting half the internet.
So I guess that means the only place to go from there is to double down, eh?
But…line go up for next quarter right?
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Still a short term win. Longer term, this will likely kill youth appetite for pursuing dev as a career option.
if it hasnt already? cant say the same for CS, since that have been lacking of jobs for like 10years already.
it’s also resulting in fresh grads that don’t know anything. this is naturally by design. within the past couple years I’ve come across so many new devs that just don’t know jack. can they answer tickets? sure. can they provide prompts to an agent? yes. beyond that? good luck. and their salaries reflect this.
No one is firing workers for AI. They’re correcting the size of their workforce after decades of overhiring and using AI as an excuse — to make it look like a good, forward-looking business decision, instead of showing that it’s fixing a mistake that went on for so long.
I wonder if stockholders could sue after the stock tanks/profit dips because it turns out those laid off employees weren’t actually replaced by AI?
sounds like a troll, but they started massively laying off since 2023, both my bros were affected severely, and then the company my older bro got bought off down the line. im in a tech hub in the west, and all they are peddling in the tech conference is all AI related, before it use to be a variety of software/tech, now its the same tech with more AI.
Nah I’m sorry you’re dead wrong. My last job we straight up got rid of 95% of our HR department and all of our interns and were replaced with ChatGPT Enterprise licenses. Then they laid off the graphic design department and left just the head of the department and 2 staff. Then I was laid off alongside over half of the IT department.
both of my bros suffered job loss, or "sidelined indefnitely. one got layed off since 23, and the current one have been “on the bench” since last year.
On the bench takes me back to Accenture days. What a horrible time.
I’m sorry for your bros :/ I hope they find something soon. I’m rooting for them
If your company did indeed lay off 95% of HR and replaced it with ChatGPT you need to find another job somewhere like now. They are about two lawsuits from not existing.
Had you read all the words in my comment, you’d see I’m no longer at that job.
I understand what you were told, but none of those functions are being replaced by AI, they functionally cannot be.
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Tons of people are getting fired because the owners think AI can replace them. Doesn’t mean the AI can do the work properly, but they are getting fired anyway.
I know a person that works at an AI startup and they convinced a company to replace their HR department with AI a while back. Funnily enough, that startup’s “AI” is largely “Actually Indians.” Their service is an agent that writes its own “tools” to solve problems/complete tasks, but the tools often don’t work, so they have a large team of devs in India rewrite them or do the tasks.
I heard Agentic is a codework for Humans actually, and Indians/south america, eastern europeans are the ones actually controlling the AI systems.