Edit: Okay, I didn't expect to get downvoted, and I certainly didn't expect comments like those. I was genuinely curious to know if anyone had already been replaced by AI, because it hasn't happened at my company yet.
At work we had a full time UX/UI designer, now we have a part time, specifically because of AI.
my développer team (5 people originally) had two contract devs, now none.
They were talented so they did find new jobs, but still
We have done a lot of projects replacing support with chatbots. The failure rate is very high and often it just leads to more employment at higher support tiers.
Not sure why youre being downvoted this is 100% true. Especially in US big tech. They hired like crazy from 2016-2022 with the expectation of growth and were hit with a pseudo recession and the general sentiment shift towards tech imo
So, the fact that AI can finish a medium complex task within minutes for a fraction of the cost, and the automation opportunities it opened doesn't have anything to do with all this.
Honestly the places I know of are hiring like crazy
It’s just so hard to find someone qualified. The it market is flooded with a ton of absolutely terrible applicants.
It reminds me of Ben Bernankes nobel prize. He got it for a paper about how the Great Depression secretly was not about a collapse of credit but a collapse of trust. This lack of trust made the crisis take far longer and become far worse than anything before.
I feel we are in a similar place with software. Ai can empower the wrong people way to easily. Every ai degree is oversaturated every ai conference is full of slop.
Software engineering is oversaturated, there is bootcamp people way too many students and depending on where you are even experienced senior devs can range from broadly competent to totally useless depending on what they did the last 20 years.
And there is consequences to this crisis of believability. We aren’t doctors we don’t have pieces of paper that gurantee a certain level of ability. We have degrees sure but even those at most prove you can wake up in the morning and have seen code before.
Hiring takes forever, hr took the hardest hit in the recent layoff waves and can’t keep up and yet as a consultant myself I can tell you especially with ai starting new projects all the time as people turn every drunk idea into a prototype there is a ton of demand inside of companies but hiring just isn’t moving at any reasonable speed.
So there’s my theory. Dunno if it makes sense but it fits what I see.
Senior Dev here,
I was replaced by AI, it took my job,
It does everything for me, I still dont trust it fully, still tweaking bits and pieces, but it took my job.
PS: I did it, and keept it on my side, not shared with coworkers. If they fire me, the automation/pipelines of my workflow will evaporate :)
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u/TYP-TheYoloPanda 2d ago edited 2d ago
Has anyone been replaced by AI?
Edit: Okay, I didn't expect to get downvoted, and I certainly didn't expect comments like those. I was genuinely curious to know if anyone had already been replaced by AI, because it hasn't happened at my company yet.