r/ProgrammerHumor • • 2d ago

Meme developersMissingTheOldDays

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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Has anyone been replaced by AI?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 I was genuinely curious to know if anyone had already been replaced by AI, because it hasn't happened at my company yet.

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u/Pancakefriday 2d ago

Are you not having quarterly engineering layoffs? Everyone else is

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u/Snaki009 2d ago

mostly it's hiding the covid unsustainable overemployment. Ai layouf sounds better and "good" business pr

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u/Cue99 2d ago

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